The Jar Explained
I left my desk job in March of 2013, because I was in the flurry of planning my daughter's wedding, and I was growing weary of producing canned, computer art. My longing to return to low-tech, hand-drawn art drove me to open a shop on Etsy in July of 2013.
I designed some artwork for my daughter's wedding revolving around her love of antique, blue-glass canning jars. After the wedding was over, I decided to name my new business Blu Jar Studio as a reminder of the big day. I also believe in the beauty of common things, and nothing is more ordinary than a glass jar.
What speaks to me more than crystal vases or fussy, porcelain bowls is a row of Mason jars in use on a shelf. In the past, canning jars were only used to store the summer harvest, but now they are used as decorations and as beautiful storage pieces. This makes me happy!
My painting is the Mason jar of the art world: unfussy and uncomplicated. I try to create little pieces of the world as I would like it to be, a world where the jar that held pickles yesterday might hold anything today. I live with my canning jars. I use them to store all sorts of things--some behind cabinet doors and some in plain view. They are friends.
I hope my artwork fits in your home as easily as a friend sitting at your kitchen table, drinking a pint of lemonade from a Mason jar.
