I'm Sara Swink, a clay artist who makes human and animal figures with a psychological stance and a humorous edge. My love of clay began at the tender age of 8 with the encouragement of my next door neighbor, who planted the seed that clay was going to be very good for me. I believed her. In high school, we had a great ceramics program, where I learned to throw on the wheel and basic hand-building techniques.
Fast forward to about 20 years later, when I returned to the clay, taking classes at Palo Alto Art Center. Then I took a workshop with Coeleen Kiebert, who answered a call in me to fuse art making and ceramics with psychology and inner work. In 2000 I began teaching her approach while simultaneously pursuing an academic art education at several institutions of higher learning in the SF Bay Area.
In 2006 I moved to Oregon where I established Clay Circle Studio, teaching classes and workshops, and showing my work in U.S. galleries.
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