Jennifer Maestre is a South African-born, Massachusetts-based artist, known for her unique pencil sculptures. She derives most of her inspiration from the form and texture of the sea urchin.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a BFA degree from the Massachusetts College of Art where she was originally a Glass major in the 1990s. Lacking the funds to continue in glass, she started experimenting with other media and began making her pencil sculptures in 1999.
To make her creations, Jennifer combines pencils, nails and stitching. From hundreds of pencils, she cuts small one-inch sections, drills a hole in each section, then sharpens them all and sews them together. The idea is an adaptation of a a sculptural beading technique called “peyote stitch”.
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