Kim Murton has been making sculpture and functional ceramics in her home in Vancouver, WA for nearly two decades, working mostly with low-fire terracotta clay and colored slips. Continue reading
Category Archives: Sculpture
Heartwood Carving
Joe Valasek of Heartwood Carving
Heartwood Carving designs and creates quality ornamental carvings and architectural details of lasting beauty and value. Architectural carvings shape a home’s interior landscape and to that end we offer a unique line of carved components and ready-to-assemble trim kits for creating decorative casework, mantels, cabinetry accents and furniture, and detailing architectural features like staircases, built-ins, and columns. Continue reading
Steve Eichenberger Crows
Since boyhood I’ve explored far flung corners of the Pacific Northwest, and wherever I’ve gone I’ve enjoyed the company of crows and ravens. My favorites are the big handsome ones that strut self-importantly about, full of bright-eyed curiosity. They look right back at me looking at them—a look I’ve attempted to capture in this series.
I sculpted the originals in clay, from which I made molds to cast this collection. Each piece is individually hand cast, burnished, and signed.
I hope you enjoy them.
Steve Eichenberger
Since boyhood I’ve explored far flung corners of the Pacific Northwest, and wherever I’ve gone I’ve enjoyed the company of crows and ravens. My favorites are the big handsome ones that strut self-importantly about, full of bright-eyed curiosity. They look right back at me looking at them—a look I’ve attempted to capture in this series.
I sculpted the originals in clay, from which I made molds to cast this collection. Each piece is individually hand cast, burnished, and signed.
I hope you enjoy them.
John and Robin Gumaelius
For Robin and John Gumaelius, radio stories, history books, biking adventures, gardening notes, watching neighbors and strangers, parks, and cars are what inspire their unique ceramic and metal pieces. Robin and John’s sculptures are unusual combinations of birds and humans: bird heads or people with birds perched on their heads and other creatures with people heads. Their works are comical, bizarre and highly inventive. They are technically laudable because of their intricacy of forms, often monumental sizes, and complex decorative glazes. The finished pieces come alive as if Robin and John as if subliminally created. There seems to be a little magic in each piece.
Robin and John Gumaelius work together building their birds and figures with a fluid connection between clay and metal, beginning with clay slabs. When the pieces are leather hard, they paint with underglazes and then carve through the painted surface, into the white clay.
Ellen Tykeson
Ellen Tykeson
Eugene artist, Ellen Tykeson, finds the tradition of figurative sculpture a continual challenge & inspiration. Solid design and form making, a sense of narrative, & beauty with a degree of accuracy, are things she appreciates in art & strives to describe in her work. Continue reading
Greg Wilbur
Greg Wilbur
Raising is an ancient metalsmithing process that stretches malleable metal into striking contours. Using forged steel hammers, open and closed forms are created from sheets of bronze, brass, copper and silver. Physically demanding, this process requires hundreds, often thousands of repetitive blows, producing a modest amount of work from a single artist.
Betsy Wolfston
Betsy Wolfston in her studio
Betsy Wolfston is a ceramic artist who incorporates her respect for the functionality of pottery into non-traditional ceramic creations that speak of human feelings and of ageless wisdom.
Betsy’s wide intellectual interests, political sensitivities and extensive travel infuse both her public and gallery art with natural beauty and critical awareness.
Betsy says, “When I am creating a body of work for a gallery show, I want to combine the ageless quality and beauty of clay with contemporary ideas and issues.”
