"Inner Beauty", a transformation mask, showing two aspects of ageing.
It is of stoneware clay fired to cone 6.
About Me
- Jan Steinbright
- Sitka, Alaska, United States
- I lived in beautiful Alaska for 30 years, raised my family there and had a dream job working for a grassroots Native organization which assisted Native aritsts to fulfill their dreams. Now I live in beautiful Mexico and am trying to do my own artwork full time, am enjoying the weather, the people and the culture.
Greetings from the temperate rain forest of Sitka Sound. We live at the edge of the Pacific Ocean and on the edge of an island named Baranof. Our view to the west is a stunning volcano which is snow-capped in the winter named Mt. Edgecumbe.
One cannot help but be influenced by the landscape here, the rugged mountains, the forests and the surging sea. My artwork is immersed in this imagery from the kelp baskets, pendants and pins I make from locally-gathered macrosystis and bull kelp to raku sculpture and paintings of marine mammals.
Welcome to Lake Chapala, Mexico.
This where I now live. We are a community on the north side of Mexico's largest lake at 5000 ft. above sea level. The weather runs about 70 degrees year round except for the months of May and June which are hot. Our rainy season starts then which I, as a Sitkan, relish. (never thought I'd say that after living theTongass National Rain Forest for 12 years.) Everything grows here--just take a cutting, stick it into the ground and in a month, you have a new plant! The local people are friendly, the arts community is thriving; I never run out of image ideas for my own art.
2 comments:
I love this piece. Can't wait to see you.
Jan, I just saw that this piece won an award and sold. How ownderful for you. Congratualtions.
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