Born and raised in the Longview area, Billie Stiles has been a ceramics artist since 1976, when she took her first class at Lower Columia College. She works of her Willow Grove studio where she produces cone six functional pottery fired in oxidation, raku, and whimsical red pottery bird houses and planters.

I do art because when I sit down at the wheel to throw, the rest of the world goes away..

-- Billy Stiles