Clay Life Art Studios llc

Founded in 2022 in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Mid-Peninsula in the City of San Mateo as a for-profit community-focused pottery studio. It is a teaching studio where memberships, teambuilding, classes and private lessons are offered in Wheel Throwing, Hand-Building and Sculpture for adults and youths. Email info@theclaylife.com for more details.

The owner of Clay Life Arts Studio & TheClayLife.com is David Paulley. David has been a graphic designer since 1988. Though art has had a presence in his life growing up it wasn’t until 2011 when he joined a local clay studio near where he lived where he had the opportunity to learn and practice pottery, eventually teaching and managing the local studio there. The wealth of experiences learned there, not only in clay, but in the people he met there and in running a studio and positive feedback from members and students there gave him the confidence and experience to bring into focus his life goal of having his own membership-based teaching studio in the Mid-Peninsula in the city of San Mateo.

David Paulley originally hails from Wyoming and is a self-taught potter, sculptor, instructor and active community member and founder of CLAsS & TCL. He uses his unique skill set to offer educational opportunities – creating opportunities for potters in local communities.

The studio practice he has established provides a vehicle for him to continually learn about material, connect with the community, and create intersections between ephemeral ideas and functional forms.