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Artist: Anita Hughes
Artists » Anita Hughes
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Craft Medium:
Clay
Artist's Statement: wheel thrown functional pottery
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Artist Works:
Artist Biography:
“Life takes us in many directions; for some of us, it’s where we want to go.”
All of Anita’s life has been involved with art in one form or another. College led her to graphic design and eventually to twenty-eight years in interior design. Creating well-designed spaces for living and working, she specialized in space and forms involving texture, color, and patterns. Artistic painting soon became a passion and gave her that extra something to support and compliment the design aspect of her career. Her jobs then became her palette. A place for edgy expression, she perfected the use of faux finishes, borders of vines, leaves, and flowers, and paintings to compliment any setting and style.
“Watercolor Encounter” an event by Doug Walton changed Anita’s view of art in a more positive way. She says, “I grew and gained a confidence I never had before. It gave me a sense of freedom to express myself. I soon realized my art journey would be an adventure with great insight. I see everything differently. Pots are no longer clay, but beautiful shapes with gradations of exquisite color. Once I began to see and feel, I knew that I was no longer throwing a clay bowl. Each project became a form of expression, a piece of art.”
Anita’s pottery journey began in 1993. It was only natural for her to create pottery with the correct form and function for life. She gave the pottery life by working with glazes to create overlaps of color, layers of depth, and the look of a master-planned painting yet keeping the function of the pot paramount.
Anita is currently in her sixth year of teaching the art and function of clay. Her studio has grown forty-two students on a regular basis, learning new techniques, experimenting with new ideas, and learning both freedom and precision with their clay. She manages to complete four, eight to ten-week sessions a year. Many of her students now have their own studios and are members of various guilds and art associations.
Anita says, “It has been a wonderful experience for me to be able to inspire and teach so many to pursue the . . . Art and Function of Clay.”
Working to create a vessel with form and function, a vessel that exhibits its own beauty, a piece of art, something that makes a statement. Pottery, easy to use at dinner parties, yet, when the vessel is displayed on its own, there is where …”Art and Function Collide”
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