Sculpting for me has always been a way to explore ideas and feelings that I am just not able to put into words. For me, the process of forming a figure from clay sometimes starts with just a feeling or emotion and the end result can be just as much a surprise for me as it may be to anyone who views it. Other times I start out to sculpt family or friends, and use the time spent squishing the clay as an opportunity to explore my feelings about them. They are sometimes a little surprised to discover that I see them with wings, or horns, or visible demons… but fortunately, for the most part – they have pretty good senses of humor.

Other times, the figures I sculpt are images from dreams both remembered and imagined, using shadows to paint the details. What I want to try to do is capture a part of that sense of wonder and fear that comes from half-seen glimpses of strange beautiful figures out of the corner of your eye…

Original sculpts are primarily sculpted in Premier, a Japanese air-dry stone and paper clay. Many are truly multi-media with components made from wire, paper, resin, flumo and more. Flumo is a very strong air-dry slip that can be brushed onto the Premier figures for strength, or poured into plaster molds. Materials for each sculpt depend on what we want that piece to be, so some may also be sculpted in polymer clay, or originally sculpted in Plastalina.