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Ceramic artist gives demos at Art on Symmes, May 2
John Beasley has been a professional design sculptor for over 20 years, working in a variety of styles and media, but when it came time to establish his own studio, the challenge and affordability of ceramic tile made it a central focus of his current work.
Beasley, owner of Medicine Bluff Studio, will give a demonstration of his work and will show some of his latest designs from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 2, at Art On Symmes in Fairfield.
Beasley, who recently relocated to Cincinnati to be closer to his wife’s family, started his studio in Medicine Park, Okla., just a few miles from Medicine Bluff, a sacred place for the Comanche, he said.
“A fault line runs through there and it looks like a half-dome with a stone-bed creek running beside it that always ran with good, clean water,” he said. “It’s an idyllic little place and since we started off doing Western designs, it seemed like an appropriate name.”
His designs have been produced in bronze, cold cast resins, precious metals and hand made paper, but ceramics has become his specialty, using a variety of techniques that he’s picked up from other areas — including working in the greeting card industry.
“All of my work has been intensely detailed, which is hard to do in ceramic tile,” he said. “You can do everything perfectly but do one thing by accident and you either get something great or you tell yourself you should have been paying more attention.”
Plus, he said, working in ceramics allows him to create art that people can afford.
“I’d go to shows and have all this stuff cast in bronze, and people would come and talk to me about it, but just couldn’t see spending that kind of money,” he said. “In my mind, everybody deserves art.”
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By MurielOK
May 30, 2009 2:14 PM | Link to this
Wanted to say hi from the art community in Medicine Park, OK. I’m sure you gave people an excellent demo.