Lee Brotherton received her Fine Art degree from Montana State University with a major in ceramics. She later earned her art teaching degree from the Univ. of Wisconsin. She has worked as an art teacher, Art Museum work, art gallery manager and art consultant. After living many years in the East, the Southwest beckoned to pursue her art career there. Enchanted with the pottery of the early Native American Indians, she began creating pre-historic and historic reproductions and learned about restoration. Just like the early potters, each of Lee's pieces is formed by hand, not thrown on a potter's wheel or slip cast. Thus, the unevenness and texture of the surface shows "the hand" or signature of the potter. All designs are drawn free-hand with water-based paints, not glaze fired, thus they are for decorative use only. She stains or antiques her pottery so it looks centuries old. A truly beautiful work of pottery is created when the form and design compliment and enhance one another.