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Glory Day Loflin calls herself an interdisciplinary artist, working out ideas in multiple materials. She makes paintings and collages, wood sculptures and ceramics—oh, and she’s a singer/songwriter, too. Her visual art fixates on the ceramic vessel and how that relates back to humanness. “My paintings and sculptures currently draw from an interest in the figurative language of ceramics,” Loflin says. “I think of the lip of the bowl, the foot of the pot, and the neck of the vase and consider the human vessel.”

Glory Day Loflin a first generation South Carolinian currently living and working in Greenville, SC. Raised on Southern hymns and several acres of woods, she is a lover of projects and prompts, using her surroundings and experiences to generate work in a variety of mediums. At The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, she was introduced to alternate modes of thinking and ways of making through the School of Art and the School of Architecture.

“More so than a painter, I want to be a multidisciplinary artist,” Loflin says. “I think the biggest gift I could give to my community is basically bringing in the language of sound art, and performance art, and an art that is maybe a little more challenging.”

What do you get when a potter and a painter combine their exceptional and distinct talents? This may sound like the start of a corny riddle, but the answer is what artists Darin Gehrke and Glory Day Loflin set out to discover in their recent collaboration.

The Greenville native grew up in a house surrounded by woods filled with cultural objects from the Philippines, where her mother was raised. “As a child, I spent a lot of time digging in creeks,” Loflin recalls, “so my initial understanding of clay and ceramics comes literally from the ground up.”

“This is one of my favorite spots in the house to change up. I bought this server at a thrift shop and updated it with a high gloss paint in SW ‘Sea Salt.’ I has leaves that fold out that can be used for serving and I usually use this as one spot in the house to change up seasonally or if I have flowers I want to put out. My friend Glory Day Loflin painted the big yellow dog painting for me and it couldn’t wrap up all of my favorite things more. The lamp I found at a vintage shop and love its bold pop of color.”