Gallery

Paintings

Sat 01 Nov 2008 04:38:04 PM MDT

I'm just entering into a fascination with the buttery, slow-developing quality of oil paints. These are a few of what I like to think of as early practice pieces.

Drawings

Tue 05 Aug 2008 10:56:22 AM MDT

Playing with lines, with color, all kinds of media.

These are fairy tales made real, all the threads of folklore brought to life through the abundance of the island's summer detritus. They have polymer clay heads, and preserved cedar bodies on poseable wire skeletons.

Porcelain Tiles

Tue 31 Mar 2009 10:55:10 PM MDT

Some of these are fired, some still bisque; a partial and motley sampling of my tile output. I love the feel of the white clay, and the risk of sculpting that first tile, which I then destroy in the process of making the mold.

Raku

Sun 05 Oct 2008 06:14:49 PM MDT

We are waiting to set up the raku kiln until my studio is built, so I have a boxful of unfired work. Tiles, vessels, odds and ends. The clay has a sturdy body that invites the making of open vessels.

Random Art

Tue 31 Aug 2004 09:44:35 AM MDT

Even more random than the rest, that is.

Sculpted Porcelain Dolls

Thu 18 Dec 2008 01:18:58 PM MST

I'm not too interested in the angel archetype, but this one was commissioned by someone who sent me her wedding dress to include. The wing-feathers came from a dead bird I found, which seemed appropriate.