Year: 2023

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 […]

May 20th – Excited to say that I sold my piece at the show! So excited, so surprised. The piece is going to be a […]

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 […]

We bought our house in the summer of 2012 and the house has an adorable fenced in small side yard with large trees and some […]

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 […]

In 2014, I was creating different animal 3D hanging masks. One of the animals that I love and created was a frog. My first frog […]

In the summer of 2019, I began creating low relief sculptural tiles of various animals. The intent was to create pieces that were not to […]

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. […]