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NVOS ceramics artist, Lois Tselentis

By NVOS artist Karen Lynn Ingalls

New to Open Studios this year, but a well-known local ceramics teacher at Napa Valley College,NVOS artist Lois Tselentis creates most of her artwork as dinnerware. She creates her dinnerware by hand-building them in stoneware with slabs, both stretched and rolled. She also creates vases with sculptural elements. Because of the methods she uses to create her work, many of her pieces are one-of-a-kind. Most of her ceramic work is high-fired in reduction.

Lois's work is greatly inspired by nature, particularly plants, and the incredible details they reveal upon close inspection. Capturing rhythm and movement in clay fascinates her, too.

Lois has exhibited her work in juried shows in California since 1975, and has sold her ceramics in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii. Her dinnerware has been used at Cakebread Cellars' American Harvest Workshop every year since 1990, and has been featured on the Culinary Institute of America - Greystone's website.

Lois was honored when asked to join Teri Sandison at Studio #29 with the Hagen Road artists, along with Eva Bedolla, one of her students. You can see Lois's work – and the work of all the Hagen Road artists – at Studio #29, 3960 Hagen Road, in Napa, California.

NVOS artist Karen Lynn Ingalls writes for this blog and our Facebook page (seen it yet?) and paints, paints, paints. You can see her artwork during Open Studios at Studio #48, with Sequoia Buck, west of Calistoga, and online at www.KarenLynnIngalls.com. She also teaches art classes and workshops, which you can find at www.NapaValleyArtWorkshops.com.

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