BIOGRAPHY

Ishara Sweeney is a studio potter in Carbondale Colorado. With a BFA concentrating in Ceramic Arts and a BA in English literature, the two have been married together in her work ever since. Although her studies turned towards the asian arts, completing her graduate studies in Chinese Medicine, she has not stopped exploring the vast wilderness of ceramics.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have a great love for the the natural world and the world of literature and they are noticeably present in my ceramic work—whether in the animals of fairytales and myths or in my Annie-Dillard-like explorations of my own wild backyard in the Colorado mountains.

Making art is my homage to what I hold dear, to the inherent beauty in the world. It is both a discovery of myself in the world and also something that is more than my hand, more than the sum of its parts.

Instagram: @i.e.ceramics