David Gurney’s ceramic work, like his lifestyle, is influenced by Thoreau’s views of nature, Mexican culture and folk art and growing up in a time of abundant orange groves and strawberry fields of California.

Each piece of Gurney’s functional pottery is hand-painted and decorated with mythical landscapes that reflect his time, place, and sensibility.

He received his MA in ceramics from California State University, Fullerton and lives on California’s Central Coast where he maintains an enormous garden and a sustainable lifestyle.