Gary Hatcher is known for functional wheel thrown wood fired stoneware pottery: dinnerware, pitchers, cups, bowls, and teapots. Forms and surface treatment are simplified, slips and glazes are used minimally, often in deep earth tones. Work is fired in a Bourry Box wood kiln.
In 1976, Hatcher and wife Daphne Roehr Hatcher, traveled to England for artist apprenticeships, apprenticed with Michael Leach in Devon.
Upon return from England in 1979 the Hatchers established their pottery, Pine Mills Pottery, in Texas. In 1983 they built a 128 cubic foot Bourry Box kiln. Unlike traditional wood kilns, this specific wood-kiln design allows for slight ash glazing. The ash glaze does not dominate the pottery surface. In 1987 a gas-fired 50 cubic foot car kiln was built for bisque and glaze firing. The work produced by the Hatchers was in the tradition of functional ceramics learned in their apprenticeship, however, refined over many years Hatcher and wife Daphane developing their own refined functional wares.
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