Maxine Jacobson – PushPause Ceramics

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Meet the Artist:

My history with clay began in the mid-1970s when I was a student at the Lake Placid School of Art and the University of Montana. After ten years, life’s unexpected changes took me in a different direction. But my passion for working with clay always seemed poised just below the surface waiting for the right circumstance to reemerge. The natural beauty of Southern Baja provided that opportunity with its richness of resources readily available to the clay-oriented artist.

Most of my pieces are dung fired or raku fired (rapid fired). I am enamored by Japanese firing and functional ceramic techniques and design such as kurinuki (carving a clay vessel from a single lump of clay). I also enjoy working with clay slabs to build functional, organic-looking pieces by combining wood and clay or by replicating colors, textures, patterns and shapes found in nature such as rocks, geological formations and palm fronds. I love the element of surprise and how that plays through in my work in formation, surface treatment and choice of firing technique.

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