What's at the root of art making? Maybe it's the desire to connect with our deepest longing, our dreams and intuition, with the voice we've silenced. In art we can actually reveal what we can't show the world in any other way.
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 | | Working with texture and color has always intrigued me. In addition, I've added the sensations spring elicit. The earth opens and so do I. |
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PO Box 2392
Issaquah, WA 98027
United States
| Gail Baker Artmaker (the business) was born at a small, sunny kitchen table in Seattle, Washington in 1953. My mother drew a bunny (not a rabbit). I watched. This was magic and I wanted some of it. I drew the bunny. It was just fine! We drew more faces and animals in color. Making marks that were meaningful was mysterious and fascinating. I signed up to be an artist at that moment.
I continued drawing, painting, and playing with clay until formulas replaced mystery in college. Since I wasn't satisfied with formulas and my clay class professor encouraged experimentation, I was inspired by his way of making art. I made a set of phallic containers and sculptures which I was too embarassed to present for final grades. The freedom I felt was overcome by a stronger sense of shame. I'm sure he would have enjoyed and even valued my craftsmanship, realism, and originality.
Graduate school began with an art therapy class at Marylhurst College in Oregon. Leather mask making! The magic of immersion in the... |
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