Artwork Description
Jan Marie Sessler – Taste of Clay
Dimensions: 27.25 x 21.75″ unframed
Year:
Medium: monotype
I have been creating visual art in Taos, New Mexico since 1993. Through the years my choice of medium has varied between painting, sculpture, printmaking and collage, as well as photography. I consider myself a creative explorer and continue to explore each medium according to inspiration and series, often incorporating paper, paint, found object and ephemera into the work. In my sculptural work, I often incorporate found objects combining these with poured cement, earth and sand. Elements from repurposed materials used to form the mold become revealed through their cast negative space.
I deeply appreciate the softening and transforming effects of nature over time on things left behind and am greatly inspired by the dialogue between human culture throughout the world and nature. The element of discovery along the way allows me to enter a meditative space where the unconscious and thought meet.