Featured Artists: Marisol Spoon

Marisol Spoon is the creative collaboration of a husband and wife artist team Jason and Lauren Weatherspoon. Adorn currently feature's the couple's handcrafted lockets. In addition to their beautiful lockets, Adorn will have the pleasure of  hosting Marisol Spoon's art work in the salon for the summer months of June and July. Stay tuned for their opening date!

1. Where did the inspiration for the name Marisol Spoon come from?

It's a funny how things work out, but our team name comes from a children's book that Jason is working on,  the girls were originally created as illustration for the book. The land the story takes place in is "Marisol Spoon". 

Part of the name comes from our last name; "Spoon" in Old English refers to a valley, and "Marisol" is made up of two Latin root words "mar" meaning sea and "sol" meaning sun. So our world is made up of the sun, sea, and valley.

2. How did you begin to collectively work and distribute art together?

 

We have been making art side by side for over a decade and have always wanted to collaborate but could not find mutual inspiration until Marisol Spoon evolved. It would take a long time to unfold the events that lead us to where we are, but I can tell you we could not have planned it, things just seem to unfold on their own.

3. What are the challenges or benefits of a) creating and selling handmade object b) doing this together as a couple and c) doing this in Asheville? 

Wow, that is a lot to answer, the best way I could sum it up is to compare it to gambling. We take huge risk constantly, we invest a lot of time, energy and money into our business and there is no promise of a return. 

But we love the adventure, and being together, even more so now with our child. I think we would both wither away without the challenge and risk. As far as being in Asheville, we could really be anywhere as we earn primarily online and at art/craft fairs. We travel about 30 weekends a year, and living in Asheville just makes coming home that much sweeter!

4. What have your biggest inspirations been lately? 

 

It would have to be our little girl, she has lit a fire in the both of us that will certainly lead to new creations. We make alot of our belongings, including furniture, tools and even our home. Jason has already began plans for an awesome playhouse and toys, and I am working on designs for dresses based on Marisol Spoon paintings.

 

5. What can some of your followers look forward to seeing from you in the future?

Hopefully the book! But definitely new paintings and new art objects. We are constantly working on multiple projects at once, so you never know when something new will pop up!

6. Do you have any funny stories about a time when you were creating something together and it wasn't coming together or it came together with ease?

 

Well, something that comes to mind is our work trailer, Jason bought it off the side of Amboy rd about 8 yrs ago, it is funky and homemade from an old VW rear end. We left it under the bridge by the Wedge while we were in NY and it was stolen, so we put the word out and it magically reappeared. We recently needed an enclosed trailer to travel our art with and at the same time Jason happened to find an abandoned aluminum truck camper shell. He hauled it back and it fit our trailer perfectly! Now we travel to shows in homemade gypsy/ hillbilly style!

To find out more about this dynamic pair, please visit their website at: http://marisolspoon.com/
or their blog at: http://marisolspoon.com/blog/