Making art is woven into the fabric of who I am and how I live in the world. Whether through sculpture or stories, I believe that making, exploring, and enjoying art serve as interfaces between worlds, between different parts of ourselves, and between each other. Click on any of the images or series titles to see details of the works, including prices and dimensions.
bronze origami
surrender
The powers that shape our world and our lives are beyond our understanding. Imagination offers us glimpses. When we arrive with a sense of reverence, and dip our tiny oars into the ocean with awe as our guide, we stretch out our fingertips towards that which is holy. Surrender to the gods and goddesses that rule our world feels fraught with risk, but promises magic.
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Ritual elements
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Across millennia and cultures, the four natural elements appear and re-appear in our most sacred prayers and rituals. They go beyond the form of the ceremonial rites designed by each culture to reach something deep within us. They are access points to the infinite. Creating a bridge between us and the world that embraces us, these elements evoke the general in the specific. Bronze, itself a child of all four elements, is the perfect medium for this series which begs to be touched and held as the viewer contemplates the divine through the tangible.
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Water & Stone
The reality of humans is relational. We only understand what and who we are by understanding what we are not. I am because you are. We understand the world around us in the same way - darkness playing with light, movement rushing between stillness. Click here to read more. |
fertility series
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The menstrual cycle is ripe with symbolism. While it occurs in a woman's body, it speaks of the journeys we all undertake. The first bleed carries us over the threshold to young adulthood, and the last (menopause) marks the end of one journey and the beginning of another. Between these two thresholds lies the time of fertility, which arises from our blood, our life force, cupped within the womb of transformation.
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succulence series
about the artist
In making sculpture I find my belonging. It connects me to the earth, to its colors and textures and forms, in a way nothing else does. It lays a filter over my experience of my environment, drawing me into a deeper knowing of this moment in this place. It steps outside of the verbal, to a space before stories, where feeling is everything.
I live in a tiny offgrid house in a wild grassland beneath the Drakensberg. In the valley below lies my studio and the bronze art foundry I run with my husband. This setting asks of me what the place of humanity is within the wider context of nature. The sky, the earth, birds, and other wildish creatures are my constant companions.
Rooted in this land, I explore channels to the infinite eternal powers with which our ancestors were intimate. How can we find these powers now? In a culture that tells us we can do more and conquer more with an ever-dwindling connection to the Source, where do the access points lie? I juxtapose the solid traditionally-manmade medium of bronze metal with ephemeral concepts such as prayer and sacred ritual.