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 From potter, pottery painter/craftsperson, to collage artist, designer, and teacher, Jane Davies is about using color with passion and panache. Her use of strong, bold color combinations is what sets her apart from other artists. Davies, who studied ceramics at Bennington College in Vermont and the School for American Crafts in Rochester, New York, before opening her own studio in 1991, made her living selling her ceramics at craft shows and through galleries. She gradually transitioned into designing tableware, quilting fabric, paper goods, stationary, and other products for a myriad of prestigious manufacturers. n addition, she has written three books |
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Friday September 17th 6-9p Making dolls is not only fun, but it is a particularly rich and rewarding way to learn new applications for mixed media techniques. Taking the figure (human or otherwise) as a jumping off point, we will explore the expressive possibilities of paper, fabric, Tyvek, fibers, beads, threads, buttons, and more. We’ll use foam core as the basic structural component, and create in an atmosphere of experimentation and play.
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Saturday September 18th 10a-4p Like many creative mixed-media enthusiasts, I LOVE the idea of visual journaling. I look at other artists’ journals and think “oh, I could do that”, or “I wish I had thought of that”. But when it comes to actually using one of my handmade books, or even a store bought art journal, I get The Blank Page syndrome. After years of wrestling with my seeming inability to find a satisfying approach, I came up with a way to make a visual journal that solves the Blank Page Problem. There are no mistakes and no blank pages! In this workshop we start with a process I call “scribble-painting”, in which we layer paint applications and collage on large sheets of drawing paper, using multiple techniques. Then we cut and fold the papers into “pages”, and create a book. Each page becomes an inspiration to collage, stamp, write, stitch, draw, and paint your way to a beautiful and meaningful art journal.
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