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My work reflects my sacred COLLABORATION with  MOTHER NATURE and I harness all 4 elements: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and WATER. 

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I'm Jasmine Oakley 

Hello, 

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I am INTERDISCIPLINARY artist and ETHNOBOTANIST working in many MEDIUMS such as Painting, Drawing, Ceramics, Writing, and more. 

I spend most of my time EXPLORING nature to
understand the complex 
PROCESSES of our world. 

I love to witness Mother Mature EXPRESS  herself through the clay and other NATURAL materials that I utilize. 

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The Glaze that I used is made with the ASH from fallen TREES.

UNIQUE to the minerals that tree absorbed in its life these glazes are the colors and glassy surface on every piece. 

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Wild CLAY tells its own UNIQUE story of the MOUNTAIN ranges that it USED to be. 

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When I peer INSIDE of a KILN, I am a MOTH drawn to the FLAME within. 

For most of my career, I have fired  ATMOSPHERIC kilns--where  FLAMES carries VAPORIZED ash or salt and DEPOSITS it on EVERY piece. 

Where EACH piece is PLACED inside the KILN determines how the FINAL piece
will LOOK.


The FLAME wraps around every piece and leaves INDELIBLE  marks on the SURFACE

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In California, I continued learning how to build ANAGAMA wood-fire KILNS to  understand  how kilns work. 

LEARN MORE about this residency on the GATHER issue of AMERICAN CRAFT MAGAZINE

EXPLORE MY CRAFT

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GALLERIES

Photography

The Natural World Explored through the Lens of Empathy, Understanding and Wonder. 

2D

To capture the aura, palette, and language of nature through color and markings preserved on paper to understand the transient being that we are.

Interdisciplinary Arts

Not bound to one medium my passion for knowledge + expression is all encompassing.

Writing

Poetry+ Prose to understand and appreciate the evolution of earth.

3D

I work to witness and harness nature's 4 elements in harmony; in order to create vessels and forms that carry and contain the beauty, grace, and stories nature has to offer.

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