Awareness: Ellen Jewett

I was immediately drawn to these incredible sculptures by Ellen Jewett when I saw them.  It is almost impossible to wrap my head around the fact that these are actually hand sculpted clay pieces.  Ellen Jewett is a sculpture who credits most of her sculptural abilities to the close observation and fascination of animals from a very early age, saying that this gave her an eye for close details in an animalistic form.  Everyone of these sculptures are sculpted by hand, including the armatures beneath the clay, and are painted by Jewett.  This has relevance to class as we are just wrapping up our unit on culture, ending with a project on the environment.  While Jewett’s works do show incredible ways of sculpting and techniques, the real reason I chose to highlight her work is because I just love them.  The tiny details and wildly vivid forms created here are simply breathtaking.