Ray Brown Ceramics

I make pottery and vessels with the intent to provide the user with an entrance into a memorable and contemplative experience. Crafting works that are soft, inviting, generous, playful, and strong, I intend for the user to leave with a sense of thoughtfulness and curiosity. I wish to achieve cohesive forms that capture a confidence of line, with supporting crisp and energetic surface decoration. Both in surface and form, I strive for a captured, pressurized volume within my work, as if they are inhaling.

Furthermore, I am interested in translating curvilinear patterns and line work into three-dimensional forms, extensions and parts inspired by architecture and streamlining era design. By exploring these iterations, I create forms that are grouped into assemblages focusing on contrast, dynamic profiles and buoyant, intersecting volumes. Through traditional techniques, digital processes, and a sculptural mindset, I accumulate an aggregate of information in the form of proportion, line, color and texture. Each layer serves as an anchor point for the next, orbiting and celebrating the elements below. Overall, through playing with proportions, surface, and color I hope to create a tactile and visual experience that prompts the user to slow down.