working with clay placing clay on the table pounding it down rolling it to flatten making a piece to begin cutting out. kind of like play dough all over again using little shapes to make flowers pressing designs into the clay making impressions looking nice. the feel...
7/27/15 Studio Shots from July 2015 We took a few new shots from inside of the studio today. Here is another sneak peek into how the completed works are organized and stored.
the clay garden imagine a lump of clay that blooms into a beautiful flower. pieces molded into different shapes with designs that look ever real. petals and stems and leaves all coming alive in brilliant colors. clay takes on many forms and is very forgiving. it...
iona art show pieces in the show of different size, color, and shape recycled art in its new form creating a sculpture display. like having my work shown pleased to see the exhibit some other interesting sculpture a contrast to my own style....
many blue cans open the cans. empty them out. rinse them. keep separate from other materials. heat glue gun. line up cans. glue two together. add another can. make sure they stick. place on top of glue. look at the angles. keep turning piece. when it is complete....
blue ice mounds of shapes covering the ground like melting snow over a junk pile . pointed surfaces sticking up having an effect of disconnect. round pieces that attach to the hard surface not smooth as if on it’s own. inside other objects creating a different...
red cans red cans glued together, different from their original purpose. no longer being a container, now empty and light. having a new function, keeping them from the garbage mounds. taken for recycling, keeping the look of cans. now it is a sculpture, of empty cans...
cans cans of metal creating finished hills and valleys, often in a junk pile of discarded trash. what could be found on the ground, is now part of my sculpture. inside was once dog food and some corn, now the purpose is to be a design. round shape and metallic look,...
I think it is hard to predict which direction I might take going forward. I have enjoyed experimenting with recycled objects and single shape sculptures but do not see that as the primary form of my work. It is the intricacies of the many pieces and shapes that will...
Using a website to maintain my work and writing is a new experience for me. I am accustomed to completing a sculpture in one or two sittings and then moving on to the next piece. I write about selected pieces after the final painting and then forget about it. The...
