WILD FORMS: YELLOWSTONE IN CLAY
JESSE FALES
Winter 2025
Jesse Fales new wild life of Yellowstone ceramics are a reflection of her life long experience in the backcountry of the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone Area.
Bigger and with round bodies, the new Wild Life Animals ceramics add big Elks and Bisons to Fales Wildlife Animals…
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THE WILD LIFE CERAMICS
Jesse Fales
Jesse Fales, three horses, a bison, an antelope, an elk, a big horn sheep, a moose, a mountain sheep, 2024, ceramics.
Born in Cody and raised on the Northfork of the Shoshone River, in Wapiti Valley, daughter of outfitters and dude ranchers, Jesse Fales spent her entire childhood outdoors on pack trips going deep into the wilds of the Absaroka Mountains. Rimrock Dude Ranch has been her home since 14 and she has spent every summer riding horses around Shoshone National Forest and Yellowstone National Park.
She started making sculptural functional ceramics in 2002. Drawing from memory and observation, she brings the wild animals she encounters in her life into her ceramic forms.