Unapologetically exquisite! Functional wheel-thrown stoneware treasures featuring riri's stunningly ornate original designs.
I sometimes like to tell my customers at art festivals that everything you see here started as a lump of clay, and then I happened to it (insert winning smile here). More specifically, each piece is wheel thrown and then hand detailed by me, and every design used in my work originated in my sketchbooks. I most emphatically refuse the slightest outside inspiration or influence; a lot of love goes into my work, and from mud to fire, this love is solely and uniquely mine. (It also helps that quite a lot of coffee goes into it too.)
I then like to explain to my customers that I'd never make a piece I couldn't use myself, therefore all of my work is food, dishwasher, microwave and oven safe, and designed with function and comfort of use in mind, primarily. Every spout has a startlingly clean pour, every handle is comfortable in the hand, and every piece is balanced just right. There's that love, again! Passion, even. I am patiently striving for nothing less than perfection, and if each kiln load isn't better than the one that preceded it, I'm unsatisfied.
