Category: small sculpture

Ohmygosh, I’m so happy with how these little guys turn out! I really wanted to recreate the large frog that I made back in the […]

I made a few more gnomes from a red clay body that I’ve been using for the past several months. These gnomes were made from […]

Prepping for the masks I made molds for the masks using plastic grocery bags that I shaped and taped. Pretty simple and low cost, easy […]

I love getting a chance to work with different clay bodies, so I was very excited when a friend gifted me a box of red […]

Clay Slabs Clay slabs are portions of clay that have been flattened into a sheet, usually with uniform thickness. The clay slabs can be used […]

I started some smaller gnomes in the fall of 2022 but due to illnesses (Covid and then strep, ugh) I didn’t have a lot of […]

Back in early December of 2022, I took a Christmas ornament making class at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, located nearby in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. […]

In the summer of 2014, I began creating animal garden masks. Just like the human/human-ish garden masks I previously created, the idea was to use […]

Well, I started 2020 making the friends in the photo above and I had no idea what was about to happen to the world. I […]

I continued making gnomes well in to 2017. I experimented with sizes, decorative elements, and colors. I had started writing and carving names and words […]

In early 2015, I was interested in moving beyond throwing and slabbing clay and wanted to create something three dimensional. I wanted to create a […]

Turtles are another woodland creature that I have been obsessed with for some time. I’ve always imagined them living amongst the gnomes and faery folk. […]

I think that foxes are incredibly beautiful and I became somewhat obsessed with them a few years ago. We live in an older neighborhood that’s […]

Due to some stressful conditions at work – teaching during a pandemic is not for the faint of heart – my artmaking slowed down quite […]

I created a terrarium with an older gnome friend and added a new lady bug friend. 9.25.22 I was fortunate enough to take a local […]