Clay

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.

 

 

Resilience
17 x 24 x 13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Am the One Who…
31 1/2 x 12 x 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Threshold
17 x 10 x 7 1/2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keeper of Secrets
11 x 6.5 x 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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