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Sara Swink: My Life in Clay
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  • Another Show at Brumfield Gallery

    I will be having another show at the beautiful Brumfield Gallery in Astoria, Oregon February 4 & March 26. Meanwhile you can visit my artist page to see currently featured work.

  • Hanson Howard Gallery

    89 Oak Street
    Ashland, OR 97520

    My work will be featured in June 2023.

  • Visit My Online Shop

    Www.SwinkShop.com offers releases of new work as they become available for purchase.
    If you're local to the Portland area, you can opt to type in a code at checkout to save shipping costs and come by the studio to pick up your purchases.

  • Add your name to my mailing list

    Add your name to my mailing list: eepurl.com/oElav to hear about upcoming shows and workshops. When you click on the link and type in your email address, make sure you click on "add contact to your address book" so that my emails don't end up in the spam folder.

  • Rowboat Gallery

    Next time you're visiting the Oregon coast, don't miss Rowboat Gallery in a new Gleneden Beach location. A stunning space with an outstanding collection of art.

  • Featured on Oregon Art Beat

    The Art Beat folks were here filming for a segment that aired in October 2013 and which has since aired on PBS affiliates across the country.
    In this TV segment, I failed to thank my mentor-teacher, Coeleen Kiebert, for the immeasurable contribution she has made to my creative life. She invited me to teach using her creative process methodology, an approach I use in my own sculptural work and have taught in workshops since 2000. It is a rare thing when one person can influence so many others so profoundly in such a positive, life-affirming way, and Coeleen is such a person. She has had thousands of people in her classes, wrote and published "All of a Sudden: The Creative Process", and continues decades of work making, studying, and teaching art, creative process and the understanding of creative personality.

  • Featured in Chinese Ceramic Arts Magazine

    I can't read Chinese, but I like the look of it!

  • Featured in American Craft Magazine

    Here's the online version of the article, "The Stories Within", written by Carolyn Hazel Drake.

  • Swink Glazes Carrot Video

    This video details the decorating process on a piece titled "Carrot".

  • "Making a Wally" video

    A very quick demo with original music by my son, Bearsly.

  • Kate Malone at Waddesdon Manor

    This is without a doubt the best ceramics video I've ever seen. It focuses on process: how she observes her environment for inspiration, her amazing documentation (think image journal/sketchbook), how she takes inspiration and transforms it through sketching into brilliant ideas in her own oeuvre (vocabulary & style), and some of the methods she uses, including sprigging and coiling, and adding hand-formed details. She talks about trusting the process and letting it inform her. And talk about test tiles!

  • Ceramists Take Risks

  • Video about my teacher, Coeleen Kiebert

    Coeleen eloquently describes her ceramic work over the decades and how she uses it for self-discovery.

  • OPA - Oregon Potters Association

  • Georgia OKeeffe: By Myself, BBC Documentary 2016

    Georgia O'Keeffe loved the motif of the unfurling stem/leaf and she seemed to zero in on it at the beginning and at the end of her painting life. It could be considered an essential mark of hers, what we talk about in workshops as a doodle.
    This BBC documentary of her life is great.

  • An excellent film about Jean Michel Basquiat

    Basquiat is one of my artistic heroes. This is a great video about him and his art.

  • Video: How to roll out flat tiles

    Helpful info about how to make tiles that will stay flat—an OPA workshop with Cathi Newlin and Dawn Panttaja.

  • Video: Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim

    Born in Stockholm in 1862, Hilma af Klint began her artistic career as an academy-educated painter of naturalistic landscapes and portraits. Influenced by the spiritual movements and scientific discoveries of her era, however, af Klint soon strove to express abstract concepts beyond what the eye can see. She began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and others would take similar strides to rid their own artwork of representational content. Yet while many of her better-known contemporaries published manifestos and exhibited widely, af Klint kept her groundbreaking paintings largely private.

    "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future," the first major solo exhibition in the United States devoted to the artist, is on view October 12, 2018–April 23, 2019 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Learn more at www.guggenheim.org/hilmaafklint

  • Video: Sacred Geometry of Shrines with Coeleen Kiebert

    My mentor Coeleen Kiebert (M.S., UCSC) discusses the archetypal meaning of shrines, temples & cathedrals.

  • Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic

  • Airbnb in West Linn

    Rates vary. You can contact Dru to negotiate a rate.

  • Guest Room in West Linn

    On Instagram at @theguestroomwestlinn $150/night. 503-841-8423

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