Chrysalis –  A new series of Ceramic Garden Sculptures

As a watercolor artist, I must plan carefully each painting before execution. In my ceramic work I enjoy the immediacy of working with my hands directly in clay. These works are an exploration around the idea of transformation. By working intuitively, I am giving way to the planning self and welcoming that which wants to be created.

I am intentionally forming a Chrysalis – a thing found in nature that metaphorically and metabolically holds that we are here on earth specifically to evolve. Beginning at the wheel I make a series of closed and open forms which I then alter. They are then completed using a limited palette of both glazes and oxides.

These artworks explore how we, intentionally or unintentionally, are always building circumstances for our own evolution. To become different – to transform, we must agree to let go of, or die to, old ways of being. I am tactically invested in life’s subtler influences of will power, present time awareness, joy, and intuition as I welcome that which wants to be born of clay.

Thank you for all the kind interest in my work.

“What shall I give in return for so much?”   ~paraphrased from Belfast, Ireland’s motto