Meet the artists of

Earthborn Designs:

Earthborn Designs Art -

Eryn Cusack

For decades, Eryn has crafted artwork inspired by the beauty of nature. Each piece is handcrafted and designed with care.

 

I’ve been working with metals for over 20 years. I’m drawn to the beautiful shine, it’s stubborn malleability, and its ability to morph and change according to how I work with it. The color and feel of silver make me think of the surface of a lake in the moonlight, and I like how I can bring forth shapes and ideas with its many changing forms.

I’m endlessly intrigued by nature and all of its variations. I emulate the twists and curves of vining plants, and follow the odd patterns and shapes found in butterfly wings. The swell of a flower’s stem as it’s about to burst into bloom, and the graceful termination of tendrils from a pea plant show me how I can form wire and sheet metal into these graceful shapes.

There is an order to nature that I seek to capture in my work. Although nature has chaos, it also has the repeating patterns and lines that underlie structure. The chaos works in harmony with these more stringent patterns to create the excitement of a single focus point. Be it color, form, or pattern, I look to showcase small pieces of nature so that you can enjoy them as they adorn your life.

I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoyed making it.

The Herald Times has a beautiful write up about Eryn and her journey as an artist.

Eryn circa 2005

Earthborn Designs Pottery -

Mary Cusack

Mary has been creating ceramics pieces for nearly four decades.

Mary began her pottery adventure over 30 years ago when she took a  night class from an art teacher friend. She was hooked, and soon purchased her first potters’ kick wheel and set up a small studio on her back porch. As her interest and skills improved, she was able to purchase a 2nd wheel and kiln enabling her to be self sufficient with all aspects of the pottery process.

Being involved in the Montessori educational system during this time enabled Mary to share her passion with young students and help them find their own creativity with pottery making.

She still throws pots on her original wheel, non electric, and powered by kicking a 250 pound cement wheel. It is a basic original wheel which was hand-made by a friend of her artist teacher.

When making  hand-built pieces without the potter’s wheel, Mary feels more creative and loves incorporating items from the natural world. Many of these are found items from her travels or gifted from friends: shells, feathers, dried plants, stones, bones, and sand beads, along with leather and jute for lacing. This keeps her connected with the earth and our origins.

"Respect the land as the earth is rich with the

lives of our kin”