For my sculptures, I use mid/high fire clay to hand build female figures. I usually add feminine touches, such as flowers and vines sculpted from clay, to each piece, or I free-hand paint flowering vines, female faces, and quotes onto the sculptures’ skin, similar to colorful tattoos. On some pieces, I use layer upon layer of colorful acrylics to decorate the figures, allowing for more detailed painting techniques similar to painting on a canvas.
On other pieces, I paint the figures with color-saturated underglazes, while highlighting some of the flowering vines with translucent overglazes, giving each piece a mix of glossy and soft sheen watercolor finishes.
The sculptures’ faces are pensive and expressive. They project determination, joy, peacefulness, or wistfulness.
Dream Seller
22 x 10 x 12
Resilience
17 x 24 x 13
I Am the One Who…
31 1/2 x 12 x 10
Emotions Come, I Don’t Know Why
17.5 x 8 x 9
Threshold
17 x 10 x 7 1/2
Keeper of Secrets
11 x 6.5 x 5
Day Dreamer
14 x 8 x 6.5
Dream Weaver
11 x 8 x 2
Courageous Dream Weaver
9.75 x 9 x 9
Flower Fae
9 1/4 x 8 x 8 1/4
Heavy Is the Crown
13 x 7 x 7
The Quickening
13 x 7 x 7
Goddess
11 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 5
in private collection
Do You Hear What I Hear?
9 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 5
in private collection
The Inbetween
14 x 7 x 8
The Conversation
13 x 8 x 6
Wistful
11 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 5
Where’s the Madness, Rose?
9 x 4 1/4 x 4