Jodi Walsh

"Stoneware"

Primary forming method?

" Oritatmi Nendo: folding clay"

Primary firing temperature?

"Cone 6"

Favorite surface treatment?

"Slip Imprint, Textured Mark Making"

Good Fortune  (Detail)

Silos Installation

Scrolls

How/Where do you market and sell your artwork?

"I work with several galleries in the US and UK, National and International Art Fairs, Art Consultants. Online Presences: Instagram and website.

My FaceBook account is used to communicate mainly with the art community."

Module 8x8  (Detail)

" Discipline – I TRY to be very disciplined with my studio time and ethics. This leads to expanding my creativity. The texture in nature finds its way into all my work."              

Circle Red (Detail)

Earth 1

Circle Red

Gorge

"I was Director of Marketing Communications within GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

I have created most of my life but left corporate 20 years ago to devote myself to the arts. After years of working with texture on canvas I was burnt out and needed to add another medium. I fell in love with the works of Ruth Duckworth and Margret Boozer and that was it. Now I needed to find a method to differentiate myself from the rest of the ceramists. Oritatami Nendo: folding clay was born. It’s like origami except I fold clay instead of paper."

Bells

How have you have taken your experience as a well-established maker in the field and passed that knowledge along to your other artists?

"I collaborate with others on projects and share information with young artists. I had a column in The Artists Magazine called Best Business Practices for 10 years. They produced a 4 set CD of my 12 STEP Program for Artists: The Art of Doing Business."

What’s the best advice you’ve been given by a fellow maker, mentor, or teacher?

“Ceramist Ani Kasten and Dancer Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit, have been a huge influence in my creative career. Discipline is their message."

Module 6 x 6

Module 6 x 6 (Detail)