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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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 ceramic sculptures and wall forms inspired by the natural world and its quiet mysteries. Through layers of luminous glazes that flow, pool, and settle across the surface, her work explores imagined landscapes inhabited by animal presences and echoes of humanity.
Within these imagined worlds, earth, sky, and the cosmos blur together. The work invites viewers to explore the space between movement and stillness.
Jones is a Houston-based artist and educator who serves as the Head of the Art Department and Art Gallery at Galveston College.
studio process
Glaze serves as both material and image in Amanda's work. Heat, gravity, and chemistry become collaborators in the making process. Many of her wall forms are fired flat, allowing fluxing glazes to flow, pool, and settle across the surface. Material and imagery evolve together through the firing process, allowing each piece to emerge through both intention and chance. Years of experimentation with glaze chemistry and firing methods have shaped a practice that embraces both control and unpredictability, revealing surfaces that could not be fully planned in advance.
Image: Before and After of an illustrated glaze landscape on stoneware (high fire clay) test fired to cone 10 (~2400 degrees Fahrenheit) in a reduction gas kiln.
