From the vacation home of the First Family to the movie set of Sherlock Holmes, Kim Barry’s pottery and tile work has been places.

Barry, a Marion native and Mattapoisett resident, has been making a living with custom clay works for the past 15 years with the Clay Trout Pottery business.

“I’ve always felt the urge to create,” Barry says. “It’s just a part of me.”

Her love of sculpture started at an early age, when she went to museums and was awe-struck at the Greek and Roman figures.

After receiving her bachelor’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, she worked with the Opera Company of Boston doing scene painting and sculpture.

Along the way, she became interested in making plant pots and sold them. She says the first batches went fast.

“I didn’t know of anyone local making pots catered to certain flowers,” Barry says. “And the more I worked, the more specific I got.”

Barry is an avid orchid grower and says a pot’s shape and size is  on the flower or plant used.

Her relief-style work with tiles often incorporates local sea life as well.

“Sometimes I can be doing orders of 500 to 1,000 plant pots,” she says. “The pots are really my commercial outlet, while the tile and painting become more personal.”

Barry says she can throw, or create, 25 pots a day, depending on the size. For the large orders, she’ll recruit a few friends to help place logos or package for shipping.

While her kids, Brendan and Maura, were in high school, they’d invite their friends over to chip in too.

Her work housed the ornate orchid display at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark for the Obama family’s vacation last August. Barry made a special piece for the President’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, featuring a silhouette of a Portuguese Water Dog—just like Bo, the family pet.

As for Sherlock Holmes, his apartment at 221B Baker Street housed nearly 40 pots for the first movie.

Oh, and her studio on Acushnet Road was built with the original gaff rig of Tabor Academy’s Tabor Boy schooner too.

When she’s not making clay works, Barry is teaching at UMass Dartmouth, where she received a master’s degree.

Tag on being an owner of the art cooperative Gallery 65 on William in New Bedford.

“I have a lot of irons in the fire,” she says. “Sometimes I put my life on hold and throw myself into my work. And there’s always the challenge of working with different clays and the physically tiring process. But this is me. It’s how I express myself.”

And she won’t be slowing down any time soon.

“As an artist, you have to keep going,” Barry says. “You have to try different things, and that constant change keeps me going.”