Jenni Ward

 

Jenni Ward is a self-employed local artist, art instructor and owner of Earth Art Studio in Aptos. In 2005, she opened Earth Art Studio; a sculpture studio offering clay and mixed media sculpture classes and workshops for children, teens and adults. Throughout her teaching career she has worked extensively with many youth and senior art programs. In addition to teaching she has been creating, showing and selling her own sculptures since graduating from University of Hartford-Hartford Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998. She has exhibited her sculptures locally, nationally and participates in the Santa Cruz County Open Studios.

 

Artist’s Statement

 

In my work I have found myself completely entranced with form. I primarily use the coil, spiral or nautilus forms as vehicles to express my ideas. The most fascinating part of these forms is the tensions created within them. I hope to capture the beauty and balance of these abstract forms by exploring that tension. My sculptures have influences of the sea, the forest and from places yet unknown, but regardless of where they are from, they are fashioned to speak with commonalities. Using clay as my outlet I try to create my interpretations of experiences, events and emotions through a medium that I love.