“No art is simply, blithely contemporary. That would be like saying our parents had no influence on us. Today’s art responds to and reacts against yesterday’s art.

Hatch serves up the magisterial on a grid of hand-painted ceramic dinner plates. The grid of circles cleverly breaks up and abstracts the scene, but doesn’t abandon its coherence. Indeed, it spotlights the mark-making.”

-Boston Globe Review of COVET: Modern Riffs on Old Ideas by Cate McQuaid, May 30, 2012

 In an effort to claim the functional surface as a painting surface, Render is a group of plate paintings and vases made sourcing the textile and ceramic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

In the translation and re-working of historic fabric pattern to the ceramic surface of a group of plates, Render becomes an exploration of the relationship between the historic and the contemporary with artworks crossing over categories of decorative art, design and fine art. Through shift in scale, color and context, the compositions of plates both abstract and highlight aspects of the textile patterns, encouraging a new dialog in pattern.

The pair of vases have also been rendered in a new way—scrambling the expected through the creation of multiple planes and an overall rearranging and collaging of historically sourced surface pattern and decoration. Again, encouraging a new experience of the familiar.

Fascinated by how we live with objects, how and why we acquire objects and what happens to them throughout history, this work is a reflection of the life of surface pattern through the decorative art continuum.