Title: Balance and Hold, Narrative Vessel Sculpture
By: Gayle Tustin
Medium: Red Earthenware with Terra Sigillata and Oxide Patinas
Dimensions: 37" x 8" x 7"
Price: $3600 - 1 Vessel / 2 views seen here
"I work on my narrative vessel sculptures as a writer works on a novel, not knowing what direction the piece will lead me. Eventually the images that appeared on this piece were all about balancing and holding onto one another. The nude woman balancing on the chair clearly became my dear friend, Kitty Couch."
Biography:
Gayle Tustin works in clay, mixed media, oil paints, India ink, and photography. Her work has been exhibited and is included in collections throughout NC and the USA, as well as France, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia. She was the first student to graduate with honors in Studio Art from UNCW. Their library has established an archive of her working papers and manuscripts documenting her career. She has also studied at Penn State and Alfred University, NY.
Awards for her work include the YWCA Woman of Achievement in the Arts, an Emerging Artist Grant, and international invitations to the St. Joakim Osogovski Painters’ Colony and the Resen Ceramics Colony, both in Macedonia. She also attended the International Artist's Colony Schloss Almoshof in Nürnberg, Germany. Gayle is a co-founder / co-director of No Boundaries Inc., a 501(c) 3, creating an Artist Colony every two years on Bald Head Island, NC.
Her work has been featured in Ceramics Technical and Ceramics Monthly magazines as well as Making Ceramic Sculpture and The Ceramic Glaze Handbook. Public art projects include murals for the Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Novant Health, Winston-Salem.
Artist Statement:
"I find myself being an engineer of artistic ideas frequently fueled from travels in foreign places as well as my own backyard. The foundation for my work is continuously generated from personal memories, abstract gestures in my travel sketch books, collected music, journals, photography, and daily life experiences."