Artist Statement:

The high desert terrain serves as both inspiration and supply chain for most of the work produced by Robert King. Robert, a practicing physician and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a self-taught potter who continuously seeks new ways to express himself primarily utilizing the various natural resources found in the surrounding landscape. Respectfully collaborating with the wild clay, rocks, minerals, sand, and trees surrounding his Galisteo, NM home and studio, he attempts to craft pottery that expresses the organic and natural environment where these materials have rested for many centuries.