FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE

In the 1970s when I was making my porcelain buttons and cabinet knobs, I sculpted little improvised porcelain figures that brought me great personal pleasure. In the 1990s, a painting and drawing on clay workshop at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts led me to a body of work in working with slabs of bisque fired clay. I began building up the details of the face with clay in the very last piece I made in that series, and created many pieces large and small that were set into wood boxes that are painted with acrylic paint along with the ceramic face. A few of those pieces are available in my paintings section here.

In 2018, I took a narrative sculpture class at Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, which has brought me to my present day 3 dimensional figurative sculpture work. Working in three dimensions (beyond buttons and knobs) is a wonderful challenge. New work will be uploaded as it is completed. And you can view more of my pieces in my Blessing Totems and Petite-Blessing Totems pages.

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Intuitive Sculpture

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Intuitive Sculpture

$95.00

Last year I attended a wonderful workshop where we used collage with magazine images to inspire sculpting with clay.

My collage had two intersecting images, that when combined, created a third image of this little creature. The instructions were to close my eyes, and sculpt an image from memory from an orange sized ball of Akio clay.

This is my little critter who delights me, and stands only 4” tall.

He is glazed and fired to cone 6. I love working with Akio clay.

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