Rae Dunn is a California native and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked in graphics and fashion design for several years before discovering clay, which has now been her passion since 1994. Her inspiration comes from the earth and she finds beauty in simple shapes, natural forms, and found objects. Her work is strongly influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. She doesn’t strive for perfection in line and form because for her, the balance she is trying to achieve can’t be represented that way. The incompleteness and imperfection of her work is part of the story.

Rae’s work often elicits a physical response, asks to be touched, and provides us a sense of reassurance that we have our feet on the ground.

“in my own way, I am driven to find that balance between expressing something deeply meaningful to me, and creating a sense of joy that might quietly touch the lives of others."

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