Beth Mullins
Beth Mullins creates unique hand thrown and hand built ceramics with a sculptural approach. Her slipcast vessels are a way to paint her markings from a constantly developing internal lexicon. Each piece results in describing new unknown landscapes and reference her internal moods or stories at the time of creation. Her hand thrown and altered pieces reference known forms but with a unique surface to them. Beth loves working with texture and form and often using black and white slips with some hints of color. The restrained color palette is something that allows her to concentrate on form and silhouette of the piece and create negative open space in the painting of the vessels. The layering of carvings or pencil markings over the black and white slips are a way to form loose shapes and lines that resonate with Beth internally to connect herself to the piece through symbols she has developed that resonate with her. Some of these shapes and symbols have meaning and others are purely aesthetic to her.