Vanessa Violet Art
Inspiration
Nature in Motion
I turn the elements' motion into complicated patterns and textures through heavily varied linework or delicate stippling techniques.
Sculpted Earth
I love the freedom ceramic sculpture allows as a media. My twists and curves become form. My lines have volume, and my stippling real tactile texture.
Patterns and Myths
I took my elemental patterns and thought of my childhood love of myths and legends, particularly the study of Greek mythology. I looked at my patterns and attempted to capture the moods from these myths into my patterns and art.
My ambition while creating is to embody in each piece a duality of intensity and tranquility.
I believe that beauty is concomitant with quality. My art inevitably evolves as I explore new ideas, concepts, and emotions
Collections
EPHEMERAL VAPORS
Ephemeral Vapors is a visual study of the architectures of air
The rhythms of sky, the breath-like motion of vapor as it drifts between presence and dissolution.
Each piece captures a moment of stillness within movement, inviting the viewer into a suspended state of contemplation. Birds, mist, windblown forms, and atmospheric textures all emerge through meticulous stippling and layered inkwork, forming intricate dialogues between organic gesture and compositional precision.
The collection hovers in a space between realism and reverie, where every mark suggests something shifting — heat, altitude, emotion, or silence. Within these skies live not only wildlife but the echoes of abstract forces — swirling, expanding, dissipating — rendered with both intimate observation and metaphysical wonder
ECHOES of MYTHS
Echoes of Myths explores the unseen patterns of ancient stories
These works channel the weight and rhythm of myth through ink: the turbulence of transformation, the grip of ritual, the pull between beauty and violence. Each composition begins as a pulse or shape, evolving into a metaphor. Abstract forms mimic firelight, armor, bark, stone, or flowing wine, all woven with an emotional logic that transcends narrative. Myth, here, becomes texture — something to touch, to feel, to remember in the body.
WHISPERS of EARTH
Whispers of Earth is a series of hand-built ceramic garden art that marries function and sculpture.
Each vessel carved is and stippled with the same natural motifs found in my ink works. Here, patterns emerge from the clay like echoes of rain-carved canyons or roots threading through loam
Familiar shapes rendered in tangible form.
These pieces hold not only plants, but presence, an invitation to notice, to slow, to sense the grounding hush that lives in soil and form. They honor the elemental conversation between hand, earth, and growth.
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