Katie Marks, Silver Lining Ceramics, is a Seattle based artist. She was born in San Francisco, CA but moved to Seattle, WA when she was young. Marks' inspiration came from Seattle and how gloomy and dark it always seems to be. " I want to show the beauty I see in the gloom — this city is teeming with life and creativity. " I choose to write about Marks' because her art pieces are very different and unique than any other artist I've seen. She uses her gloomy city to bring creativity and uniqueness to her art work. She was only in high school when she started using clay and she didn't know that ceramics was going to be her full time job. She knew that ceramics was her destiny when she got her first wheel in 2010. She inspired me to do something out of the ordinary and use different ways to create different outcomes. Marks' pieces have a constant theme and I love how each piece is different but you know they go well together. Her pieces are like collections and it's something that I hope to learn to do and keep a consistency in my work. |