Colleen Williams' exploration of the ceramic medium began while apprenticing for an architect in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after completing her education at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for a BS degree in Architectural Studies.

In living above the studio of a friend's mother, a potter, Colleen found that the translation of designs she'd been making onto floor plans were easily achieved in clay by using graphic symbols made into clay stamps, which soon developed into overall textural patterning.

Colleen exhibited the line of porcelain jewelry collectively know as "Local Texture" in the American Craft Council and the Rosen Group's wholesale events acquiring over 70 galleries, museum shops, and boutiques across the USA and Japan before representing herself at many of the nation's most prestigious juried art festivals.

Today, she is recognized for her unique surface designs on porcelain in her art jewelry and sculptural work, maintaining a studio at the Beaver Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts.