ABOUT THE ARTIST

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Amanda Barry Jones is a multidisciplinary artist with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Ceramics whose work centers in clay, glaze, and the transformative effects of heat and time. She creates quasi-narrative ceramic sculptures and wall works inspired by the natural world and the subtle mysteries that move through the landscape. Shaped by memory, lived experience, cycles of time, and a sense of spiritual resonance with the rhythms of existence, her work explores imagined landscapes where animals, shifting horizons, and celestial forms emerge through luminous glazes that flow, pool, and settle across the surface through heat, chemistry, and chance.

Within these environments, earth, sky, and the cosmos appear to meet and dissolve into one another, inviting viewers into quiet dualities of movement and stillness, the ethereal and the grounded.

Jones is a Houston-based artist and educator who serves as the Head of the Art Department and Art Gallery at Galveston College.

Amanda works primarily with clay and layered glazes, allowing heat, gravity, and chemistry to play an active role in the final composition. Many of her wall works are fired flat so fluxing glazes can flow, pool, and settle across the surface, creating luminous atmospheric effects that echo shifting horizons and celestial forms. Through years of experimentation with glaze chemistry and firing methods, she embraces both control and chance, allowing the kiln to become a collaborator in shaping each landscape. 

Image: Before and After of an illustrated glaze landscape on stoneware (high fire clay) test fired in a gas kiln in a reductive atmosphere to cone 10 (~2400 degrees Fahrenheit).