All of my pieces are unique, handbuilt using a variety of surface finishes, including ceramic stains and washes/glazes, smoke fired,  or painted.  The clay at times includes paper, metal, glass or other texturing materials.  Pieces may be similar, but are never the same.

"Balance" series is newest work in clay, freestanding figures, totemic guides. I will comment further on my discovery of "Inukshuk" while working on these pieces. Their similarity was brought to my attention. I will comment on that a bit more as I update my site.

 

 SModysseystrollweb.JPG"....les fleurs" are sculptural forms suggesting both flower and figure, sensual, undulating, colorful.  Earth Forms, geodic many using textured clay, also  experimenting  with finishes, smoke, paint.   I explored the shallow bowl form adding ridges, suggesting trailing roots, rivers flow, paths.  These were inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, an environmental artist.   "Other works" gallery images showing a variety of explorations in clay.  

The "Rhythm of Life" paintings. These paintings were done in the U.P. of Michigan this summer. They are about energy.  They reflect the light, the sky, the trees, the spirit, the wind, all things.

There is a spiritual content to  my work runs like a thread, whether landscape or figure, they have a soul of their own.  This describes totemic pieces. They are both. They are all and all is one.

 

 

 

 

 

View my blog "Musings" for almost-daily postings.

Claywork  and paintings available at my studio at Odyssey, in the River Arts District, Asheville NC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

 
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