Sculpture
My art tells stories. Many of the sculptures that I create are narrative images that reveal themselves to me as I work on them, as they live in my studio, as they recall myths and stories that have nurtured and inspired me over the years.
Clay is an elemental material and how it transforms with water, air and fire to become something new is vital to my creative process. I am inspired by the beauty of the natural world.
“True Love”
49"x55"x22"
"Surfacing: Story as Muse" (2008)
This installation explores the relationship between narrative words, visual imagery and kinesthetic senses. It evokes moments of connection with two mythic stories that have become a muse for me. Seals, selkies, swimmers and Sedna, Inuit goddess of the sea, all swim together in this work. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the water of the stories.
The sculptures are handbuilt clay vessels that have transformed into figurative swimming figures. Many are burnished and then blackened by fire in a traditional pitfire method. How the fire burns will mark the pieces!