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Artist's Statement of Gail Frasier
Photo by Linda Kilpatrick
Artist's Biography "Mathematics is my education but I have not let this stop me in art! I made and successfully sold functional pottery for 20 years before jumping off a cliff into one-of-a-kind sculptural art. Landing on my feet, I now sell my sculptural vessels in shows and galleries. Teaching pottery is a new challenge that I find most rewarding.” Growing up in Florida, Frasier spent many weekends on the beach collecting shells as well as skeletons of urchins, sand dollars and horse-shoe crabs. She has made her home in Colorado From 2007 to 2009 she and her husband served in U.S. Peace Corps Jamaica where they worked in community development. Jamaican influences such as flowers, nutmeg, sweetsop and coconuts have found their way into her new work and, in some cases, morphed into Colorado themes. In 2006, Frasier’s work was featured in two invitational shows, four publications, and is included in Evergreen – Our Mountain Community, by Gene & Barbara Sternberg. In 1996, Frasier was instrumental in launching an Artist-in-Residence program at Wilmot Elementary School, Evergreen, CO. She is President Elect for Art for the Mountain Community. Her work is represented in The Stephen Quiller Gallery, Creede, and Grand Lake Art Gallery, Grand Lake, both in Colorado. Frasier’s work has been in Sculpture in the Park, Loveland, CO, as well as the Evergreen Open Door Studio Tour, Evergreen, CO. Frasier was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated from the University of South Florida in 1968. |
My clay sculptures concern Nature and Change. It is change and growth, the possible effects of these over time, that interests me – pods on the verge of bursting with seeds; shells outgrown by their sea inhabitants; tree bark surviving animals and weather; weather affects on rocks; and, in a broader sense, the breakthrough moments of personal change and growth.
since 1974. The ocean of Florida, influences of her time in Jamaica and especially the mountains of Colorado inspire her work. She finds self-expression in clay's pliability, its ability to hold textures, and its durability.