When Christina Bothwell was youthful, her main focus was making the very best work she was able to. “Now, it occurs to me that I am part of a continuum,” she says. “It’s the feeling I have when I am making stuff that is the important thing—the process… That’s what we do as artists, right? Lay the groundwork for the next generation.”
Bothwell typically collaborates along with her husband, Robert Bender, who provides wooden components to her dreamlike glass and ceramic items (beforehand). She applies botanical particulars and different small options in oil paint, making a mixed-media world of ethereal figures and religious, interspecies interactions.
Not too long ago, Bothwell skilled a sudden well being situation that threw her off her axis and derailed her studio apply. She says, “I felt disconnected from my creativity, and it even seemed pointless to make art at all, like, ‘Why bother?’” Ultimately, although, she realized how a lot she missed being within the studio and the way taking part in round with supplies enlivened her thoughts and spirit.
“These days, I feel keenly that it is a privilege just to make art, to see and be moved by beauty,” Bothwell says. She started engaged on a collection of seashell sculptures with figures nestled inside them, which have been deeply private, metaphorical visions of rising from one’s personal security zone to expertise the unknown of the broader world. She sculpts every shell out of beeswax, ultimately casting them in glass. The figures, then again, are constituted of raku.
Bothwell is at present engaged on sculptures that encourage letting go of the previous and making area for brand new concepts, specializing in themes of ease, change, and braveness. Discover extra on the artist’s web site.
