Artist's Statement
Being an artist at heart all my life, I created tiny clay cherry pies and ribbon flower bouquets for childhood tea parties, then later established a career in interior design for mostly residential clients across the country. But my passion for animals simultaneously coexisted with my career, and most of my spare time was involved in animal protection and rescue. Capturing and celebrating their innocence, beauty, grace, humor, and playfulness, has been my passion. Now my goal is to bring a surprise of delight or knowing smile to anyone who meets my whimsical paper clay ceramic critters. Each one tells their own story and has a spirited, impish personality. The “devil is in the details” and my attention to the little things emerges from my love of flowers, fashion, design and color and my glazes are inspired by Mother Nature’s paint brush. I hope some of the love and joy I try to express in my creations will spill over and spark similar feelings in all who meet them.
Being an artist at heart all my life, I created tiny clay cherry pies and ribbon flower bouquets for childhood tea parties, then later established a career in interior design for mostly residential clients across the country. But my passion for animals simultaneously coexisted with my career, and most of my spare time was involved in animal protection and rescue. Capturing and celebrating their innocence, beauty, grace, humor, and playfulness, has been my passion. Now my goal is to bring a surprise of delight or knowing smile to anyone who meets my whimsical paper clay ceramic critters. Each one tells their own story and has a spirited, impish personality. The “devil is in the details” and my attention to the little things emerges from my love of flowers, fashion, design and color and my glazes are inspired by Mother Nature’s paint brush. I hope some of the love and joy I try to express in my creations will spill over and spark similar feelings in all who meet them.
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A little about Jean Greeson
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Jean's paper clay sculptures are inspired by her love and passion for animals, flowers, fashion and color. For years she has been involved with animal rescue, especially greyhounds and feral cats.
Her mom was a gardener, and introduced her to the beauty of fresh and colorful flowers. Her dad worked for Hallmark Cards, and brought her wonderful ribbons, papers and cards to play and create with. She crafted entire bouquets of ribbon flowers, which led to fabric flowers, which finally led to clay flowers. As a child, She would sit for hours shaping clay bakery goods, patiently and individually rolling each cherry in the make-believe pies before covering them with simulated lattice crusts. Thus, passion for fine detail was born at an early age. Her love of beauty, color and lighting served her well in completing interior design assignments over the last 35 years in Kansas City then Asheville. Jean now lives in the mountains of North Carolina, still doing animal rescue work, fostering kittens and working with the Blue Ridge Humane Society. She loves working in her own ceramics studio at her home in Hendersonville. 
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