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<title>Gourd Light Artistry</title>
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<h2>About Gourd Light Artistry</h2>
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<p class="intro">Jane Mawson is a third generation artist living in Chestnut Hill, Pa., and is a graduate of Washington
College in Chestertown Maryland. Jane takes inspiration from the Bauhaus tradition of unifying art and craft, design and
function, in her work creating gourd lamps.
Jane has shown her work in several galleries in the Philadelphia area, including the Abington Art Center
and Accent Gallery in Ocean City, New Jersey. Jane will be one of the artists featured in the book ‘Creating
Gourd Lights’ by artist Susan Nonn, to be published in early 2017.</p>
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<p class="clearfix">I am excited to launch the Gourd Light Artistry website. I have become very attached to doing this art over the past few years and intend to continue for many years. I hope you enjoy it, and I welcome your responses to the lamps nature and I make. <br><br>Please feel free to contact me with questions and comments on social media. Thanks for shopping at Goard Light Artistry!
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<h2>What is a Gourd?</h2>
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<p>A gourd is the hollow, dried shell of a vine fruit in the Cucurbitaceae plant family, related to
cucumbers and pumpkins. They have been found in
archaeological sites dating from as early as 13,000 BCE, and were domesticated in South
America, Asia, and Africa.
If you’re interested in what I do you should view the work of <a href="http://www.calabarte.com/" target=new>Calabarte</a>,
perhaps the most well known and well regarded artist creating gourd lamps today from his home in Poland. His
creations are incomparable and started me on this path.<br>
<br>I create my lamps from dried gourds from the United States and Mali.
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<h2>Process of Creation</h2>
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<p>I consider myself more artisan than artist in that the work I do introduces old world manual skills, such
as wood working and pyrography (the process of burning designs onto a surface) to create
contemporary objects that blur the line between craft and art.</p>
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<p>I think of my lamps as sculptures that become transformed through illumination at night, which in turn
transform the spaces they are in, adding beauty and a ‘softening’ experience to the viewer. The inner
membrane of the gourd is exposed through carving which acts as a screen for the light from inside.
Depending on the depth of the carved surface, reds, oranges, and yellows are produced and the addition
of hundreds of holes on the surface allows the light to pass out of the gourd directly and form patterns
on walls and other surfaces which are close to the lamp when it is lit.</p>
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