Brenda Bates Clark

Brenda Bates Clark is a self-taught ceramist from the Pacific Southwest, she has worked as an Art Director and award-winning Illustrator. Her past commissioned work includes pieces based on Egyptian themes for the Luxor Casinos main showroom in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her multi-cultural wall sculptures are reminiscent of ancient ritual art. Ms Bates Clarks creations are in numerous private collections across the nation including those of notable celebrities as Martha Stewart.

My earlier years were spent traveling to Thailand (I slept in the shadows of Wat Doi Sutep and walked the catacombs of Wat Udon), Egypt (as a guest of the Fayad family, crawled deep into pyramids where few if any Westerner had been), Italy, England, southern France, Mexico and to native sites in Americas Southwest, learning the ancient ways of bringing clay to life, to preserve the beauties of long ago realities.
I sat with the very elderly on the Hopi reservation in Arizona as a guest of the artist Sonwai, listening to tales of beauty once created. And worked beside young native artists in Chiang Mai and Cairo, watching their hands create intricate yet empowered shapes. Sensing the spirit in such work, that closeness with our world and other worlds.
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