Vicky Phillips’ pottery reflects the natural Texas Hill Country environment where she lives, along with an assortment of animals, in a house she built herself on 15 acres near Bandera, Texas. Her introduction to working with clay was in a high school pottery class and it has remained a passion that she’s pursued ever since, both as a hobby and professionally. Vicky’s colorful pottery is made of stoneware and porcelain clays that she shapes on her wheel or with a slab roller and adds hand-crafted sculptural elements. She then dips or paints each piece with up to six layers of different colored glazes, refiring it until it’s a beautiful work of art.

The natural life of the Hill Country is expressed in Vicky’s designs, as her mugs, trays, and bowls are often decorated with intricate wildflower motifs and attached sculpted antler handles, reminiscent of the white tailed deer that roam the area. Vicky’s pottery is functional, but with a touch of whimsy, that she’s appropriately named, “Mud Magic Art”