{"id":47271,"date":"2021-12-29T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=47271"},"modified":"2021-12-29T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T03:05:04","slug":"feature-artist-maryjane-findley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-maryjane-findley\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Artist: MaryJane Findley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47275\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47275\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-blooming-bowls-portrait-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"888\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blooming Bowls. MaryJane Findley, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Ceramic artist MaryJane Findley sees the search for expression as the theme of her life. \u201cClay has been very instrumental in my growth as a person,\u201d she says. \u201cI am immeasurably grateful that I found it.\u201d Before applying herself to creating pottery in her 40s, however, she explored other avenues for self-expression, including dancing, singing and acting. During the time she was a musical theatre major in college, she took so many art classes that she was mistaken for an art major. \u201cI was just needing to find a way to express and I wasn\u2019t confident enough to be an art major,\u201d she says. At both Eastern Illinois and North Texas State universities, she studied art, theatre, music and English, earning her B.A. and becoming certified in the Alexander Technique which actors, musicians and others use to achieve natural and healthful body movements while performing.<\/p>\n<p>Findley grew up in Barrington, IL, a small town near Chicago where, she says, the arts were encouraged from kindergarten years through graduation. \u201cI started playing with clay in third grade,\u201d says Findley. \u201cI remember making a pear that looked almost realistic.\u201d She became interested in music and theater in high school, but struggled to maintain focus on any one particular element of the arts.<\/p>\n<p>She was living in New York City when a marriage ended and 9\/11 happened. \u201cI was undone,\u201d she says. \u201cI moved to a little village in Queens called Kew Gardens. Forest Park was nearby and I found solace in the vast paths and old-growth trees there. I really loved the trees. They became friends. I know that sounds all airy-fairy, but there is nothing like hugging an oak tree. It\u2019s a massive life form that has existed for years, even before my grandparents were alive. Something about the depth of life they represent connected to me deeply and I would bask in their ancient energy. There was a particular tree that I\u2019d pass on my way to work that was my touchstone (touch tree).\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47276\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47276\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo-810x538.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo-1140x757.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-Duo-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MaryJane Findley, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her walks by the park also took her past a pottery studio. \u201cI started taking wheel classes, then handbuilding, and then just basically dove into the mud,\u201d she says. The studio became her creative home for more than eight years.<\/p>\n<p>When a friend wanted to leave New York at the same time she did, he suggested they move to Asheville. It was a place she had visited only once before. While she was preparing to leave the city, her special tree, the one she\u2019d passed and touched so often, succumbed to high winds and fell. \u201cI was sad about it, but found it fitting,\u201d says Findley. \u201cI was leaving and it let me know that I was on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>I was even able to grab a piece of it while they were removing the stump. I brought it to Asheville, a small piece that reminds me to stay connected to the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47277\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47277\" class=\"wp-image-47277\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl-940x1024.jpg 940w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl-768x836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl-810x882.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feature-Artist-grouping-mem-spring-and-bowl-1140x1242.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MaryJane Findley, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While in New York, she had worked various jobs in the business world, a place where she never felt entirely comfortable. \u201cI\u2019ve never really understood the business world,\u201d she says. \u201cYet, I lived in NYC and got by pretending I wanted to be in business.\u201d Her parents, she says, always seemed to worry when she did not have a typical career.<\/p>\n<p>When she arrived in Asheville, she found studio space at Odyssey and took classes at Clayworks, and in 2014 when a group of Odyssey studio potters decided to form Odyssey Co-op Gallery, she was among the 25 original members. The co-op evolved through the years as, Findley says, did her own work. \u201cI saw things I wanted to do and began to experiment with colors.\u201d Still a willing explorer of the arts in all forms, she took a class on creating vases for Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. \u201cI started using slabs and found them to be much more immediate to my creative process,\u201d says Findley. \u201cThen I took a real Ikebana arranging class with Libby Campbell who taught me just how to think about the containers I made.\u201d Findley learned principles of how arrangements and containers work together to create, among other things, harmony and balance. The lessons were invaluable, she adds, and formative. \u201cI really started to incorporate the processes and the thinking. The work I make now stems from those influences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She likens her actual creative process to a conversation with herself while her hands are working with the clay. Does it need anything, she might ask, as she goes along. What if I do this? \u201cIt\u2019s done when it speaks to me with a little feeling in my heart and my belly,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>In the last years of her mother\u2019s life, she told Findley that she was proud of her for her artistic work. \u201cShe told me that she really felt my work was worthy,\u201d Findley says. \u201cIt was her last wish for me to really make something with my ceramic art. I remember her looking at me earnestly with water in her eyes and telling me that. I finally felt acknowledged for the direction my life had taken me.\u201d Today, Findley\u2019s coral interiors are a nod to her mother\u2019s favorite color. \u201cI love the way it complements and enhances the presence of the verdigris,\u201d she says. \u201cIt just makes me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about MaryJane Findley and her work, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/MaryJane4Clay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/MaryJane4Clay<\/a>. Find her work at Odyssey Co-op Gallery, 238 Clingman Avenue Ext. in Asheville\u2019s River Arts District. January hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Monday. Findley also offers in-person visits by appointment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceramic artist MaryJane Findley sees the search for expression as the theme of her life. \u201cClay has been very instrumental in my growth as a person,\u201d she says. \u201cI am immeasurably grateful that I found it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-craft-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Feature Artist: MaryJane Findley - The Laurel of Asheville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ceramic artist MaryJane Findley sees the search for expression as the theme of her life. \u201cClay has been very instrumental in my growth as a person,\u201d she says. \u201cI am immeasurably grateful that I found it.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-maryjane-findley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feature Artist: MaryJane Findley - 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