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As a small child, I often made "mud pies" in the dirt, while drawing little pictures, so it was natural that I would, one-day, choose clay as my primary medium.
Although artistic projects have always been my passion; marriage, raising four sons and maintaining a part time career consumed the first half of my life.
As a junior high student, I discovered my love for sculpting, taking a single quarter elective class, (my only art class), in which I made small, ceramic heads of
famous people. Many years, colleges, and careers later; the opportunity came to go back to school, (full time), and art of course became the main focus. Following
the completion of my bachelor of fine art in metal sculpture, I went on to earn a master's degree in ceramic sculpting. Creating heads was still of great interest
and further producing portrait busts of human figures became my objective. My love of nature has always been profound and my attraction to pieces that were organic
in appearance - sea shells, tree bark, fossils - substances that curve and twist, that contain rich textures and colors has remained, unchanged.
As an artist, I've worked in many mediums; several types of paints, ink, graphite, metal, wood, glass, paper, plastic, wax (to bronze) and clay; and I have a tremendous admiration for each. Two dimensional work is exciting, but moving to the third dimension provides a great many more opportunities for expression. I adore sculpting and my desire has therefore been, to produce figurative work, pieces that are organic in appearance, or a combination of both elements. Sculpting with clay is very liberating, allowing a freedom, (although rigid and sometimes volatile and unpredictable) which can give an unlimited degree of texture, color, form and shape. |