Daphne Roehr Hatcher

Daphne creating "vine handled baskets" fall 2007. Daphne will be participating in numerous exhibitions and events during 2008. Among those events and exhibitions will the Dallas Pottery Invitational Exhibition to be held at The Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, Texas. She will also be guest artist at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennesee for the Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object conference and exhibition.

Daphne Roehr Hatcher has been a full-time studio potter for more than thirty years, sharing her studio with husband Gary Hatcher established in 1979. She apprenticed in ceramic art studios in Devon, England, with Michael Leach and David Leach from 1976 to 1979 as well as shorter apprenticeship experiences in France and Greece.

She received a BFA degree in art from the University of North Texas School of Visual Arts and has received many awards for her work in the ceramic field, including the UNT 1999 President’s Citation. “Control, surrender, the integration of surface and form: these are considerations focused on in my current body of work. I have fired pots with glazed surfaces in various kilns, often with complex layers and patterns, but wood firing provides the balance between control and surrender I seek.”

Daphne Hatcher exhibits widely in invitational and juried exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. In recent years she has exhibited her ceramic art in the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, The South Texas Institute for the Arts, The Ohio Craft Museum, The Vermont Clay Studio and the Dallas Visual Arts Center.

Daphne has work on permanent display in the American Airlines Corporate Collection, Ceramics Monthly Collection in Westerville, Ohio and many others. Images of her work have appeared in numerous books and periodicals.