Jeff Drullard's art career started in Dallas, Texas as a pottery student at the creative art center. He spent two years with all mediums including sculpture, bronze, ceramic and stone. It was the year 1994 when the struggle for survival began as an artist emerged from a neanderthal man, working wonderfully in hand-building, slab and slump. He had found his way - a cave man in Birkenstocks, making hundreds of slab flowerpots to this day. In 1996 he left Texas and revisited Oregon, where his pottery continued to be his central vice. In Eugene, Oregon he found a most great opportunity in the Lane Community College art program, where his stone carving began & flourished. He made camp there for 6 years. He focused on the day-to-day process of hammer and chisel until the desired form would appear, or in many instances be accidentally obtained. One of his favorite tools, the wood rasp, would slowly appear in the dark recess of his neanderthal cave, followed closely by the riffler of many shapes & shadows as many visions of grandeur rose out of the smoke. Polishing was a great mediation for him and time was his greatest tool. Ribbon in a disarrayed pile also held many possibilities, bringing this cave man into the light. He is a 6th generation native in Northern California, born to a seamstress and a woodworker, thus art came from within. Only it wasn’t until many years later that the ceramics and stone working neanderthal would appear. He has no great degrees nor certificates, only a huge desire to create and enjoy time well spent in creating a finished piece for all to enjoy. His art enjoys collecting a fine layer of dust in local galleries in Central California.
