"Summer, 1961, my yellow Chevrolet Corvair took me from deep East Texas to Northern California where I studied pottery with Marguerite Wildenhain, a world-famous artist trained at the Bauhaus in...
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"Summer, 1961, my yellow Chevrolet Corvair took me from deep East Texas to Northern California where I studied pottery with Marguerite Wildenhain, a world-famous artist trained at the Bauhaus in Germany before WWII. I never looked back. Upon leaving Pond Farm, Marguerite said, “You have a lot of talent and ability, but it seems your focus is mostly on girls and cars!” Nonetheless, her tutelage enabled me to receive a MFA from the University of Iowa, which, I believe, was the beginning of the deepest desire to never stop creating and to never stop learning.
I have journeyed through the academic world, the incredible creative period of the 60’s and 70’s where Art in the Western world was recreated, through the business world which included a 10 year stay in China, and the beginning of the digital age.
Today, that same creative drive is just as strong as it was when it started. Along the way, the spirit morphed from creating my own ideas into helping others tell their story visually." -- Tom Mason