I’m Rebecca Tasker, the hands behind Present Pottery. Based in my home studio in San Diego, California, I make pottery for the satisfaction of making useful, beautiful things.
I studied ceramics at NYSCC @ Alfred University, but after graduation, I took a different path and clay stopped being part of my life. I ran art galleries on the East Coast for a few years before moving out West in 2003 and making a serious career turn into construction. I earned my General Contractor’s license in 2013 and founded Simple Construct Naturally Healthy Homes with my partner, Mike. We built (and sometimes designed) environmentally friendly homes that incorporated natural materials. Clay came back into my life in the form of mixing and applying clay plaster to straw bale walls. This entertained me for many years.
When a friend moved away and gifted me her wheel, pottery came back into my life. What started as an amusing hobby has become a satisfying passion for making with clay again, now seen through the lens of 20 years of design and building.
The joy I experience from using handmade pottery every day has inspired me to share my pots with others. Thanks for being present here with me.
No AI, No BS
Hyper-Local = Real
This website is about sharing my pots with friends, family, and community members. I don’t want to take over the internet, ship worldwide, or become a household name. I want real people to have real things that I made.
In an age where you can send a photo of a handmade object to a company in China and have it made and shipped to you for pennies on the dollar, I’m offering the opposite. If you’d like to have one of my pots, communicate with me about buying it, how I can deliver it to you, or how you can pick it up. Feel it in your hands, evaluate the quality, know who made it, have something real.