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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Camille Stancin was born in Echo Park at the old Queen Of Angels Hospital and grew up in Los Angeles. She came from a family of LA artists and graduated from Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design with a BFA in Fine Arts and became an animation artist. She is a Color Designer for the studios, including Disney, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Warner Brothers, working on many shows such as Looney Tunes, Over The Garden Wall, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, The Power Puff Girls, and many others.  

She descends from a line of art instructors and students that began with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the famous Impressionist. Alois Lecoque was his student, who taught her uncle, John J Stancin, a Neo-Romantic landscape painter. He was her father’s much older half brother, and her dad learned from him how to paint. Camille was a student of her father and uncle, as well as a few of her favorite art school instructors, and the many artists she was inspired by. Influenced by the Expressionists and old masters, she learned to draw and paint large in scale, bold and gestural, but also makes small things like ceramic jewelry.

Camille’s oddball yet elegant ceramic jewelry is handmade in Los Angeles. Each piece is formed out of clay, kiln-fired and hand painted. Antique brass finished hardware gives it an aged 1930s look. Some pieces include vintage or new beads in a variety of materials such as natural stone, Czech glass, Bakelite or colorful plastics.  

Each piece is a wearable art object of singular design and limited in number. She also makes art prints and greeting cards of her paintings, and designs graphics for T-shirts and many other applications. All are printed in Los Angeles on acid free Forest Friendly FSC paper and the greeting cards come with recycled envelopes.

A NOTE FROM CAMILLE

Hi Everyone! I just wanted to tell you briefly about how I got into making ceramic jewelry. I learned ceramics in art school, then a friend showed me how to make a mold so I could make more than one of each design. My first designs were cute, cranky animals and insects like ladybugs and sheep, and food items like donuts and hotdogs. I still love to create super-cute, cheerful, fun imagery, but I want my jewelry to be grown up and elegant, and well made from good quality materials like ceramic kiln-fired clay. I love plastic and acrylic beads too, and the combination of old and new. I appreciate the history of old things and want my jewelry to have an aged look, so I chose antiqued brass for my metal finish.

Thank you for your interest in my artwork and I hope you enjoy it!

from Camille

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