About
Stephanie McGeorge is a ceramic artist whose work exhibits both the rigor of her classical artistic training and the unexpected delight of her artistic instincts. Her hand-drawn lines appear impossibly perfect, and her choices of colors and shapes bring joyful surprise.
Stephanie lives in Montana, where the Yellowstone River and mountains are the backdrop to her art. She is inspired everyday by the patterns and unexpected moments found in the nature around her.
Bio
Stephanie was born in Colorado, and at a young age her mom moved her and her siblings to Texas, where she grew up. For college, she attended the arts program at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Stephanie then lived in Colorado and California, before finding her home in Montana.
Throughout her life, Stephanie has worked to support her art career. From accounting to business operations, she has a strategic mind. But whether she was working for a major cable network or the global design firm IDEO, she always brought artistry and creativity to her work. She always looked for what was possible, what could be.
She has been a full time artist for three years now, working out of her home studio.
Artist Statement
My work is either unexpectedly colorful and ornate or elegantly simple and bare. This duality creates a dialogue of opposites that I often feel within myself and see in the world around me. Both bodies of work are unified by form and function. The rim, handle, foot and body of a pot hold specific considerations as points of contact to the user, while the surface extends an entry point of shared imagination, either whimsical or as a blank canvas.
I can remember from a very early age collecting objects that felt like a memory. Over the years photography has instilled aspirations to capture the fleeting essence of beauty created by light, color and shape. Clay enables me to create long lasting objects that attempt to capture the fleeting.
I think of my surface designs as a visual language where different elements build upon each other, creating a unique story. Layers of different colors, patterns, and cloud-like shapes are a background to free-hand carvings of floral designs or circles and pinstripes. The repetition and difference of the shapes creates the pattern, and the process determines the outcome, much like the journey is more important than the destination.
