About Sculptor and Potter Janet Lever-Wood

I have been a functional potter for over forty years, grounded in a tradition of wheel thrown work, challenged to create personal and pleasurable vessels.  Ideas for sculptural work fill notebooks: these drawings take shape with asymmetric building processes on a large scale.  Pieces emerge from field trips to archaeological sites and explorations of the art and lifeways of early man.

I am drawn to the geography of spirit, the places where earlier people left a mark on the stone.  The clay pieces I produce reflect a 40 year relationship with clay, landscape and memory.

I am a member of:
American Rock Art Research Association
Utah Rock Art Research Association
Friends of Cedar Mesa

Walking the Comb

Walking with the absence of rock art, of structures-
prehistoric human notes.
The silence is spherical,
a spacious quiet.
We have entered a concert hall
for flies, birds, one lizard darting into a shadow.
We see a stone outcrop
that resembles a rabbit,
hiding from its winged predator.
We note vestiges of green:
ephedra, juniper, the last blade of summer grass.
And oh the sky-true blue against red rock.
The mind hums with delight.

-Janet Lever-Wood

In the news:

Janet Lever-Wood: An Artist Exploring Place and Time
Interview with Tom Yoder on KSJD

Work can be seen at the following galleries and locations:

Stonefish Sushi & More
Cortez Cultural Center
Home and Range
Boulder Arts & Crafts Co-op
Blue Heron Pottery and Sculpture
Cow Canyon Trading Post (Bluff, UT)