Reilly Cornwall

Growing up my kitchen cabinets were stacked high with bowls of every color. They were handmade, sturdy, and marked with a year and my mother’s initials. These dishes were the staple of our dinner table for years, and today some of mine have joined them.

I grew up in sunny San Diego and moved to Washington DC as a college student. I started out as a photographer before discovering ceramics and never looking back. I’ve been working with wheel-thrown ceramics for three years now and I have greatly enjoyed exploring the medium of clay.
There’s a unique permanence to clay after it has been fired. From mud vessel to stone, the moment of its making is forever captured. With my background in photography, this is what truly made me fall in love with ceramics. Every fingerprint, every trimming, every line, every shape is imprinted permanently in stone just like a photograph.

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