Lily Snow Boykin

Lily Snow Boykin’s work is influenced by her Japanese heritage and her environment. Her compositions are reminiscent of her family’s home in Japan, extremely visual and tactile. She experiments with a range of design, textures, and glaze applications. Her approach includes manipulating contrasting colors, shapes, and patterns to create cohesive compositions. Though Lily’s background is in painting and drawing, she found her passion in clay. The immediate, physical interaction with clay challenges her constantly to push to the next level. Her ceramic work is predominately created by alternative firings such as the Japanese inspired raku firings and barrel/pit firings.

In November 2017, she was selected to host a featured trunk show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts during the opening weekend of Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China. Over the years, her work has been juried in numerous all-media art shows and included in the Artisan Display:  Handcrafted Stories exhibit at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in December 2017. Lily’s work was juried in the Workhouse International Clay Invitational (Fairfax, Virginia) in 2018.  Lily’s ceramic art was included the CURRENT Art Fair (October 24, 2019 through October 27, 2019) in Richmond, Virginia.  CURRENT, Richmond's first contemporary art fair, features works from local, national, and internationally recognized artists.

An ongoing display of Lily’s gallery work may be found at Crossroads Art Center (Richmond, Virginia).