Sculpture

I’ve always had a hankering to create sculptures. On reflection, my applique work facilitated this. The applique creatures moving from the vessel into a 3-D identity enabled the reflective narrative of my hand me down heritage journey to begin. I wanted to reflect the natural world (with reference to some of the wildlife I remember seeing so much more as a child on the farm), and in the making, to celebrate the working traditions of the many crafts. This was the beginning of my Sculptural journey.

As my sculptural journey goes on, I’ve continued to experiment both with different clays and making methods, both using pattern pieces but also more freely building various body parts, slabbing, pinching, solid cores, creating animals more familiar to the home environment, our four-legged companions, dogs, cats, horses, goats, from the house to the farmyard.

I make sculptures sometimes according to seasons, tadpoles, frogs and newts tend to occur each year, whereas sighthounds I re-visit regularly, as I love them and know them well having lived with one for nearly 14 years. But I’m open to commissions of any sort.