Jay blends her passion for recycling with the creation of fine art and one-of-a-kind functional art. Her innovative and obsessive attention to detail produces fascinating and striking works of art.
Jay holds a BFA in Design from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. A career in graphic design, soon lead to a move to the Big Island of Hawaii in 1986. She found time between running her commercial printing company to continue creating art in the early 90s. Experimentation with glass lead to a state grant for innovative research and development of recycled glass for casting sculptures and functional art objects.
Jay’s newest work utilizes recycled paper and coconut fiber in mixed media paintings.
“In the process of transforming mundane objects into things of beauty and meaning, I’m captured by the subtle twists of vision I’m granted. I’m like an explorer on a path never before traveled where every new vista fills me with joy.”
I have the honor of posting my first blog on my daughter's eco-art. It may also be the first comment on her blog site.
Jay has been working in the graphic arts field for some years including work experience during college. She may not tell you this but she has a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in textile design.
The fact that her father, being a retired civil engineer with a current interest in photography, and a mother that always had an interest in arts and crafts suggests that she came from a home background not strongly orientated to the art field. Somehow she overcame those limitations and forged a strong reputation as an innovator as she moved about the various media.
For years she has had a very strong interest in reuse of materials normally thrown away but that could be incorporated into useful art, if not always "fine art".
I believe she is one of the leading authorities on reuse and recycle of such materials on the Big Island.
During the years she has created and presented to us various pieces made of recyled materials. In my view they are fine art.
I think I can say the same about the paper mosiac displayed on her blog.
We proudly display her work in our home and although I can't always describe the creation process, her mother, Doris, and I can say "That's our daughter, the middle one!"
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I have the honor of posting my first blog on my daughter's eco-art. It may also be the first comment on her blog site.
Jay has been working in the graphic arts field for some years including work experience during college. She may not tell you this but she has a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in textile design.
The fact that her father, being a retired civil engineer with a current interest in photography, and a mother that always had an interest in arts and crafts suggests that she came from a home background not strongly orientated to the art field. Somehow she overcame those limitations and forged a strong reputation as an innovator as she moved about the various media.
For years she has had a very strong interest in reuse of materials normally thrown away but that could be incorporated into useful art, if not always "fine art".
I believe she is one of the leading authorities on reuse
and recycle of such materials on the Big Island.
During the years she has created and presented to us various pieces made of recyled materials. In my view they are fine art.
I think I can say the same about the paper mosiac displayed on her blog.
We proudly display her work in our home and although I can't always describe the creation process, her mother, Doris, and I can say
"That's our daughter, the middle one!"
cwest
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