Rachel Verity

Feeling burnt out from working all day, Rachel Verity started taking ceramics classes as a way to reconnect to art. “I love the tactile nature of clay,” she says. “There are so many different techniques in ceramics, and the endless options for what you can make really interested me.”

Verity started in animation about five years ago as a color designer and now works as a background painter at Bento Box. She intentionally keeps her ceramics and animation work separate. “I don’t look at [ceramics] as something I have to get better at, but rather something I want to enjoy and feel the freedom to fail and not have to learn anything from it,” she explains. “Of course, you do get better with time, but it’s not my goal when making pieces.”

These days, Verity makes high fire, wheel thrown ceramics. She says that she mainly uses porcelain “which can be a temperamental clay body but shows color beautifully. Ceramics can be unpredictable, though, and I find a lot of joy in that because you never know how anything will turn out. Sometimes it’s way better than you could’ve hoped, and sometimes it’s garbage—and both are okay!” While the ceramics Verity sells are mainly functional, such as retro rainbow cups, illustrated bowls and plates, or floral-inspired planters, she occasionally creates decorative pieces for display.

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