Clay from Groupings
Bangs Girl in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. The ceramic figures are created in redware using Majolica-like glaze.
Boy One in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. This figure was the first, and the only eponymous titled of the series.
Lydia in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. She wears a wonderful diamond checkered zippered jacket, 8”H x 7”W x 4”D.
Odfie in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. This figure in clay was a study in breaking the surface of the face for depth.
Goggle Guy in clay, front and back, reminds me of the Goggle Factory, in Reading, PA. Not to be confused with Google.
Meghan’s self portrait with long thick brown hair, in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. 7½”H x 7¼”W x 4½”D
Self-of-Sorts was my first 3D face in bronze, which spawned this entire series to include clay and felt.
Pencil Boy in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. The red earthenware clay heads are bisque fired to cone 06—04.
Family of Four in clay, front, from Bronze-Clay-Felt series. The puzzle of the grouping reveals some scooped out areas of family dynamics.
Four individual clay sculptures comprise the family unit as one, interlocking and entwined.
Majolica glazes are under-fired to cone 012 to maintain a matte surface. Mother, Family of Four in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series.
Father, Family of Four in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. Four interior rattles gently sound to represent being chosen, known, loved and celebrated.
Sister, Family of Four in clay, front and back from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series. The shoulders nestle into the brother and mother figures of the family grouping.
Brother fits the puzzle in the family by locking into the father and sister figures. In redware clay of the Family of Four, front and back, from the Bronze–Clay–Felt series.