What have I been up to? Opening our storefront, Bountiful Beloit!!
We sell so many things. And grow so many things. And make so many things!! Including my pottery, as always ♡ shop.jennyhoople.com
Ceramic Sculpture and Pottery - Inspired By Nature
Ceramic artist, Jenny Hoople, uses nature inspired ceramic sculpture and studio pottery to give people an experience of refuge from modern culture.
by Jenny Hoople
What have I been up to? Opening our storefront, Bountiful Beloit!!
We sell so many things. And grow so many things. And make so many things!! Including my pottery, as always ♡ shop.jennyhoople.com
by Jenny Hoople
When you go out hiking, stop to wonder. Look under bushes and up at the sky. At least a dozen people passed us on the Ice Age trail last weekend, but I wonder how many of them saw the ghost pipes under those bushes?
And do they know that that squeaking-metal-door-of-a-bird was a broad-winged hawk? Did they spot him??
I finished this drawing by sunset and then candlelight on our second day of camping in Kettle Moraine State Park last weekend. When I took these photos, I had the campfire stoked and my morning tea was all brewed.
There were still lots of fungi, bluejays and butterflies that I hadn’t had a chance to draw yet and by a lucky chance my husband and boy were sleeping in! So I kept drawing.
I just put the finishing touches on that drawing yesterday. We’re back in town, but I can still feel the forest singing in my veins. Can you believe there were four different species of oaks right there in our tiny camping spot??
It’s amazing what a lot of interesting plants and animals you can see in one weekend when all you have on your schedule is to cook every meal over a fire, to go for a couple of hikes and to keep your eyes open.
I will be listing these drawings and a handful of others I’ve been working on as prints on my website in the next couple of weeks and, yes, I’m working on some coloring book options in the future, so stay tuned!
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by Jenny Hoople
No joke, when I crawled out of our tent this morning. I heard crow calls and looked up to see 3 fly across the clearing. Pretty cool.
What I’m not understanding about camping is how it can be both lots more work, and lots more rest than daily life? Why would that be?? We have to exert more effort for practically every daily activity, but we have so much time to swing in the hammock and paint and talk to each other. I am exhaustively rested and uncomfortably content. (THAT is because of our 5 yr old waking us in the middle of the night both nights and letting all the mosquitos into our tent. My feet are now polka dotted.)
A HUGE thank you to the @wi_dnr for these awesome kids activity books. They really make our trip every time. #authenticson loves doing the exercises and we love how it gives him something to do during down times. Can’t wait to pick up our patch!!
by Jenny Hoople
I started getting serious about building it recently because I saw in a flash why I needed to make this art piece come alive now.
People are already aware of what is happening and nothing is changing. I want to inspire people with a renewed sense of awe and humility in the face of nature’s wonders and the destruction we are raining down upon our ecosystem. I want to pierce right to the center of their being and get them to sit and think about what we are all doing. Really think about it.
Meanwhile, I’m letting myself fall in love with the Earth all over again as I sculpt, which gives me hope.
Coming next Thursday (4/4/19) I’m releasing these mussel shell trinket dishes for pre-order. (It will take a month to get them fired because I’m waiting for a glaze order from my supplier, but I have 25 shells all ready to be glazed!)
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I’ll be in touch soon,
by Jenny Hoople
What I’m most proud of this year is exhibiting all of these sculptures in gallery shows:
The last time my work had been in a show was 17 years ago. Never say that your ship has sailed. You make the world a better place, so thank you for playing your part. And look for even more beauty from me in 2019!!
I wonder if you’re sad that I haven’t sent you as many emails this year? I used a lot of my energy to build up the other half of my business at authenticmensjewelry.com so that I would have more money to live on and to make this ceramic art that you love and that the world needs.
Now that I have a little more wind in my sails I’m making a resolution for 2019 to write to you more often about my art and to make more of it. Of course, my imagination runneth over (as per usual!) but I must work within the boundaries of time and space. How limiting! (I’m searching for a workaround to this!!)
Happy New Year to you, I hope your 2019 will be filled with the silhouettes of branches and the gentle murmur of water over stone.
by Jenny Hoople
Life/death/life… our natural drive to keep going is always intertwined with endings: The lettuce you massacred for lunch, the corporation that’s giving everyone cancer, the global heatwave that may just snuff us out.
It’s hard to feel it right now, but these endings will be followed by beginnings. And I’m going to keep making art about that. I’ve decided that I’m gonna go out singing (and fighting for the light) until my last breath!
Who’s with me?
(The bunny one will fire in the same colors as the ram, later this week!)
Canopic jars are found in Egyptian tombs and were used to hold the organs of the deceased to keep them safe for your rebirth in the afterlife. As such, they are also handy symbols of renewal and fertility.
Today’s meditation walk answered: If not this, then what? If not me, then who? If not now, then when?
The birds will keep singing and I will keep making. I hope you will keep doing what you do best.
We need you.