Craft Medium – Fruit and Fish Skin
“Adorned”, (2006) byJan Hopkins.
Cantaloupe peels, orange peels, grapefruit peels, ostrich shell beads, Alaskan yellow cedar and waxed linen. 22” x 15” x 9” Photo credit: ©Wendy McEahern Photography.
“Oh Eleanor” teapot, (2012) byJan Hopkins.
Grapefruit peel, cantaloupe peel, ginkgo leaves, ostrich shell beads, cedar bark, and waxed linen thread.
30.5″ x 28″ x 12″.
Close-up of above teapot, (2012) byJan Hopkins.
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: “Women are like teabags.
We don’t know our true strength until we are put in hot water”
Grapefruit peel, cantaloupe peel, ginkgo leaves, ostrich shell beads, cedar bark, and waxed linen thread.
“Forbidden”, (2010) byJan Hopkins.
Garden of Eden on the torso with lush leaves and ferns and a serpent that slithers from the apple on Eve’s stomach, up around her shoulders and rests on her left shoulder to whisper in her ear. The words written on the serpent are “Eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil”. Grapefruit peel, cantaloupe peel, yellow cedar bark, ostrich shell beads and waxed linen. 18” x 15” x 9”.
“Amphitrite”, (2007) byJan Hopkins.
Double walled grapefruit peel torso, stitched together and molded.
Materials: grapefruit peel, cantaloupe peel, waxed linen, lotus pod tops, ostrich shell beads, yellow cedar bark and paper, 36” x 12” x 10″ Photo credit: Carie Stryka.
“Reflection”
莲花荚上衣,银元荚,上蜡亚麻和纸。
Detail of a collaboration byJan Hopkinsand Chris Hopkins.
“Unbreakable” Frida Khalo, (2015) byJan Hopkins. The quote of Frida Kahlo “I am not sick, I am broken, but I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint” is sewn on the body brace. Grapefruit peel, melon peel, weathered hydrangea petals, eucalyptus leaves, laurel leaf, sharlyn melon peel, pomegranate peel, cedar bar, ostrich shell beads and waxed linen. 19″ x 17 ” x 8″.
Ladybug detail, (2013).
Grapefruit peels, yellow cedar bark, recycled vinyl disks, waxed linen, drift wood and concretion stones.
《瓢虫》回归(2011年)。
Rhododendron leaves, eucalyptus leaves, yellow cedar bark, hydrangea petals,
California poppy petals, ostrich shell beads and waxed linen.
35英寸× 12英寸× 12 /4英寸。肯·罗摄。
“Homage“ close-up, (2004) byJan Hopkins.
柚子皮,上蜡亚麻,黄杉皮和纸。
15 1/2” x 5 1/4”, photo: Jerry McCollum, Private Collection.
“Walking on Eggshells”, (2004).
Grapefruit peels, waxed linen, hemp paper, ostrich shell beads and yellow cedar bark,
9”x 9”x 9”。Jerry McCollum摄。
Private Collection. Tessellations inspired by M.C. Escher.
Fruit Skin Teapot, “Chicken Little”, (2008) byJan Hopkins. Cantaloupe & grapefruit peels, Alaskan yellow cedar, ostrich shell beads and waxed linen.
7 1/2” x 11” x 10”, Date: 2008. Photo: Ken Rowe.
Fruit Skin Teapot, “Doodle Doo”, (2007) ByJan Hopkins.
双壁柚子皮茶壶缝合成型。
Materials: grapefruit peel, waxed linen, yellow cedar bark and paper,
8” x 11” x 7”. Photo: Ken Rowe.
Fruit skin teapot “Mother Hen”, (2009) byJan Hopkins.
哈密瓜和葡萄柚皮,阿拉斯加黄杉,鸵鸟壳珠和上蜡亚麻。
Hen, 5 1/2” x 11” x 5 1/2”. Photo: Ken Rowe.
Fruit skin teapot, as above.
Fruit Skin Teapot “Orange Pekoe”, (2000) byJan Hopkins.
Orange peels, waxed linen, hemp paper and cedar root ,
8” x 6” x 4 1/2”. Photo: Jerry McCollum.
Permanent Collection: Kamm Teapot Foundation.
“Regeneration”, (2009) byJan Hopkins.
Lotus pod tops, yellow cedar bark and waxed linen.
14″ x 14″ x 14″. Photo: Ken Rowe, private collection.
Fruit Skiin and Lotus Pod Vase.
Lotus pod tops, yellow cedar bark and waxed linen.
“Vibrant”, (2006) byJan Hopkins.
Orange peels, waxed linen, yellow cedar bark, ostrich shell beads and lotus pod tops.
6” x 6.6” x 3.5”. Photo: Ken Rowe, Private Collection.
Sturgeon Skin Teapot, (1999).
8 1/2” x 10 1/2” x 6 1/2”.
Sturgeon skin, waxed linen, bull kelp and Japanese rice paper.
“Sturgeon Moon”, Sturgeon Skin Vase, (2014).
Sturgeon skin, bull kelp, yellow cedar bark, lunaria seed pods and waxed linen. 13″ x 16″ x 7″.
Jan and her husband are currently working on a new series of works
dealing with the WWII Japanese American Internment that detained Jan’s family.
“Frozen in Time” detail (2014). Maple leaves, red birch bark, cantaloupe peel, weathered hydrangea petals, lunaria seed pod centers cedar bark ostrich shell beads and waxed linen. H 16″ W 16″.
Statement: On Feburary 9, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 ordering the internment of Japanese Americans. Jan’s family and all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were ordered to leave their homes and relocate to Internment camps. Their lives were frozen in time, not knowing when or if they would return to their homes (This piece is currently in an exhibit at the Baum Fine Art Gallery in Oklahoma.)
“Out of the Mouths of Babes”, (2015), (Japanese American Interment Series)
Cantaloupe peel, grapefruit peel, cedar bark, waxed linen, acrylic paint
on hemp paper and mounted on wood panels and frame. 19″x 24″.
艺术家声明:“这是我妈妈告诉我的一个故事,关于我出生在战后不久的兄弟们。在我8岁和10岁的时候,战争结束11年后,我哥哥的朋友喊道:“嘿,让我们玩战争吧,你可以成为日本鬼子。”一想到自己会成为“敌人”,我哥哥就不知所措,回答说:“我们不想成为日本鬼子。”也许他的朋友比我哥哥更困惑,他回答说:“但是,你们是日本鬼子。”弟弟很困惑,跑回家问妈妈;“妈妈,德尔伯特说我是个日本人。我不是日本人,对吧?”妈妈看了看他,被他的问题吓了一跳,然后用平静的声音回答说:“你是日裔美国人。”This piece will be on exhibit atFuller Art Museum, MA starting April 16th.
All art byJan Hopkinsof Everett, Washington.
Jan has been represented in the past by:
Gravers Lane Gallery(Philadelphia) and
Mobilia Gallery(Cambridge, MA)。
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