Whether created on the vast expanses of far West Texas or in her Austin studio, Bonnie Lynch's ceramic work references the simple, elegant forms of nature and the seductive silence of a desert landscape. For Lynch, who grew up on a ranch east of El Paso, the open land remains a constant inspiration for creating vessels of clarity and scale. Organic in nature, her vessels are constructed with hand-formed coils, layered and smoothed, and once dry, packed in straw and manure for pit and kiln firing.