TURTLE ISLAND POTTERY
This Flying Squirrels Umbrella Stand is not quite 20" tall.SOLD...commissions taken
I can repeat a theme yet there are still..."No Two Alike"
I am pleased to announce a donation I have made to the Community Foundation of WNC. There will be an auction held at a luncheon with guest speaker Nontombi Naomi Tutu, daughter of Desmond Tutu, at the Grove Park Inn. June 9th. Click here for more details. Community Foundation of WNC
"Hand in Hand" in Flat Rock, NC has invited me to display several animal sculptures May-July....check it out and spread the word:
Animals,Animals,Animals
Southern Highland Craft Guild Member http://southernhighlandguild.org/tipottery
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Maggie and Freeman Jones 50 Cedar Creek Rd Black Mountain, North Carolina, 28711
828.669.2713
I have always been an artist; it is a characteristic that is the same to me as the color of my hair or eyes. Nature is my main inspiration, symmetry is appealing to me and I look for balance in asymmetrical designs. Antique art pottery, the art nouveau style and the arts and crafts movement are often reference points for new ideas. My greatest urge is to create from the very stuff of Earth. Crystals growing, lava flowing and plants blooming are meaningful forms of creation for me. These are activities that occurred when the earth was created and it is still going on today. Clay is the most agreeable medium for me in that it has seemingly endless possibilities and the processes incorporate the four elements, earth, air, fire and water.
These "VOCO" forms, or Vessel Orientated Ceramic Objects, were started on the potter’s wheel. I have stretched, altered, manipulated and added details to the point where each piece is an individual sculpture. I can reproduce a theme yet; there are still: no two alike. Layers of a variety of glazes have been applied, mostly by brush, to take advantage of the many ways minerals react with one another, in the heat, to create the textures and colors that I desire. I paint with minerals.
Maggie Jones
I hope you enjoy my site.
VaseFinder.com
Ceramics Today
Explore Black Mountain
http://www.aapa.info/http://upstatevisualarts.org/
