Bonnie Lynch

Bonnie Lynch lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico and remote West Texas.  The minimal, spacious, desert environment of both locales has long inspired and informed her work.  

Her quiet vessels, formed by hand from clay coils, are smoothed to a stone’s surface. They seem to hold within them volume and silence itself.  Through a melding of fire and earth, they achieve a serenity synonymous with the solitude of her inspiration.

Eleven years in New York City enriched her work, yet the arid desert landscapes to which she ultimately returned never ceased to be its origin.

She has worked over forty years in clay and has exhibited widely, including the Louvre Museum, Paris, and exhibitions in Santa Fe, New York, Houston and Japan.

Collections holding her work include the Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, Netherlands, the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, the Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas, and the Robert Wilson/Watermill Foundation, New York, among other notable private collections in the United States and abroad.

Frequent travel to Africa and Japan deepens her practice and resonates with her aesthetic focus on beauty and the contemplative.