Collection: Brian R. Jones - Featured Artist

We're thrilled to have longtime Artaxis member, Brian R. Jones as a Featured Artist in the Artaxis Shop! He writes about his work, "It’s an experience as old as mankind—jamming your fingers into a lump of wet, red mud scooped from the ooze of an ancient lake; as old as a preschool summer dodging wasps in the muck under a kiddie pool, wet dirt and snails and grass. A pie. A pot. Kodachrome dreams of watermelon reds and sno-cone blues, stuffing your fingers into a mound of alluvium belched up from the belly of the earth; the masticated remnants of towering sequoias, luffing seagrass, horsefly wings, bear hides, mastodon cud and nightcrawler crud. It’s like a conversation. A jam session. Trading fours with Etruscan potters and stealing licks from T’ang glaziers. Taking your own clay out for a spin. Looking back to ask, “How’d you like that?”

Raised in the suburbs of Syracuse, NY Brian was drawn to art as a kid and teenager. Calvin and Hobbes and Richard Scarry books were early influences. He started working with clay as an undergraduate at Alfred University and by my second semester in ceramics it became a calling. He earned my MFA from Southern Methodist University and has been all over the country teaching workshops and as a visiting artist. Brian worked with comedian Marc Maron making mugs for his podcast WTF for 14 years, getting handmade pots into the hands of his guests and audience.

Find Brian’s Artaxis page: https://artaxis.org/artist/brian-r-jones/

Find Brian on Instagram: @brianrjones