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Jean Grenier
Sculpture and Pottery
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Working in 3D!!! I have been doing pottery for several years and love to throw pottery on the wheel. I keep my wheel on my screen porch so I can work outside year round. Throwning on the wheel is a great escape and very "balancing".
This past year I started sculpting and love it. I have completed about a dozen pieces in clay and recently had a piece bronzed. I study sculpture under Marty Daus at Cherrylion Studio.
I have two galleries below. Just click on the galleries to see more examples of my work. If you are interested in any of the pieces here or in seeing more of my work, just email me at jean@walkawaystudio.com.
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I recently had this piece cast in a bronze composite. It was originally sculpted in clay. Most of my pieces have been sculpted in clay and fired slowly in a kiln to solidify the work. I then finish them with various materials to achieve the desired patina. |
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I still love to work with clay on the potters wheel. There is no substitute for an afternoon on the wheel or an evening raku firing. I have a great group of friends to thank for getting me involved in pottery. I got started 4 years ago when I took a sabbatical from the corporate world. The folks that got me involved are a wonderful group of people that I had the opportunity to work with and support. In addition to their warm friendship and enough humor to last a lifetime, they gave me a potter's wheel as a send-off into my art sabbatical. I got hooked and never turned back. My husband Tom also does pottery. We built a raku kiln that we regularly fire. We are always looking for new glazes and techniques. I sell raku on EBay as well as in local shops around town.
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We are into glaze chemistry, electric firings and even recently built our own Raku Kiln in our backyard at Lake Hartwell. This is a picture of my husband Tom and our Raku Kiln in paradise. Raku is instant gratification in the pottery world. It allows the potter to be hands/gloves-on in the firing process. Results are never identical and wonderful accidents regularly occur. Check out this gallery to see the step by step process of a raku firing (we left out clean-up... it's not pretty). |
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Updated November 26, 2004
