Daphne Roehr Hatcher

"Pair of Spiral Tattoo Vases"

Stoneware, Wood-fired, 13.5" x 5" x 5"

"The core beliefs and values that I have about my work and life are: quality, craftsmanship, attention to detail. I'd like to think that the pots I make reflect these qualities. While I had a very traditional training, my present body of work has moved beyond that discipline into a more painterly approach to clay and glaze, less concerned with function than with visual imagery and form. As a studio potter, there is safety and comfort in the familiar, but I am always trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

I've made the woodlands of East Texas my home for the past eighteen years and my work has grown to take in my surroundings. The lush flower platters come from my love of gardening here. The stark bottle forms spring from the time I have spent on my grandmother's ranch in deep South Texas, where the environment is harsh and the sky is large. I am continually interested in the duality of nature and the contrasts between light and dark, stillness and motion, starkness and lushness. Nature is an ever-present source of inspiration for me."

Daphne Roehr Hatcher, Pine Mills, TX

Studio Artist, Pine Mills Pottery, est. 1979

BFA: University of North Texas

Apprentice to Michael and David Leach, Devon, England

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