Vonie Evans is a native Texan & has always been around farm animals and recently, exotics. She taught economics and government for 20 years, and when she and her husband retired, they moved to Kerrville.

Six years ago, Vonie took a class in ceramics & knew this was something she wanted to do.  She set up a workshop, bought a wheel & kiln & has tried everything she could imagine in clay. When Vonie saw clay animals in a magazine, she decided to try this. It worked and she has not stopped since.

Vonie’s animals are high fired & because they are handmade, no 2 are alike. Glazes are whatever the kiln decides. Sometimes acrylics & lusters are added. Sometimes she leaves them as they were made from the raw clay. She also makes wheel thrown & hand-built vessels, but always with a twist. A lizard or cow, a flower, an abstract form; whatever she feels like doing. This is Vonie’s “thing” and if other people like it also, she is very grateful.

Vonie’s work has been shown at The Rivers Edge Gallery, Kerr Arts & Cultural Center and the Museum of Western Art, the Medina Art Center and now Artisans at Rocky Hill in Fredericksburg.