Jean Greeson

Jean's paper clay sculptures are inspired by her love and passion for animals, flowers, fashion, and color. Her gardener mother introduced her to the beauty of fresh, colorful flowers. Her dad worked for Hallmark Cards, and brought her wonderful ribbons, papers, and cards to play and create with. She crafted entire bouquets of ribbon flowers, which led to fabric flowers and eventually to clay flowers. As a child, she would sit for hours shaping clay bakery goods, patiently and individually rolling each cherry in the make-believe pies before covering them with simulated lattice crusts. Thus, passion for fine detail was born at an early age.
 
Over the last 35 years after working for several firms she finally opened her own in Kansas City. Later, with daughter Jill Tran, she founded a lamp company, designing, producing, and selling their unique creations to retailers like Nordstrom and Roche Bobois.  While exhibiting at the High Point Design Market, she met her future husband, Don. 

Jean now lives and works in North Carolina, dividing her time between custom interior installations, fostering kittens, working on the Executive Board of Directors of the Blue Ridge Humane Society, and her own ceramics workshop at her home in Hendersonville.