In a few days, I’ll be headed off to our property in Todos Santos, Baja Sur to teach a weekend workshop all inspired by the desert, the ocean, the flora and the fruit of the area.
I’ll be posting photos and updates as it happens. Can’t wait to meet my students and play with clay at studio Barro Sur!
And a grande GRACIAS to all of you who donated to create two scholarships spots for inspiring local artists to attend my workshop! You guys are amazing!!
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VISITED THE STUDIO THE PAST TWO WEEKENDS FOR OPEN STUDIOS!
So much gratitude for all 900 of you that came through my studio this during this years Open Studios Art Tour. It’s a lot of work to prep for this event but your conversations, thoughtful compliments and purchases make it all worth it! I hope you loved seeing my latest work from the Bone and Umbel Series, it was so fun to have a custom blue wall in the studio and watch you take selfies and family photos in front of it.
Don’t be a stranger throughout the rest of the year, we can keep in touch via social media, by signing up for my email list , do your holiday shopping on the online shop or just make an appointment to visit the studio – I’d love to see you!
Join me at Open Studios 2021
For the first time in two years, I’ll be opening my studio to the public as part of the Santa Cruz County Open Studios Art Tour.
OCTOBER 9, 10, 16 & 17th 11-5pm
2523 C Mission St | Santa Cruz
Artist #243
I’m hoping to have this piece done to share at Open Studios this weekend, but at the very least, it will be a work in progress to share! I’m really excited about the final steel form that my husband designed and adding on the ceramic flower heads makes it even better. I’m in the process of epoxying on each flower, sanding the connection point to create an even flow between the steel and ceramic and then painting the epoxy to match. It’s a time consuming process but of sanding and adding epoxy, but it’s worth all the effort in the end.
Hope you come see this piece this weekend!
I’ve been wanting to make Fennel shaped umbel flowers for a long time now, I love their upside down umbrella structure with little bulbs of color on the ends of each pedicel. So I’ve collaborated again with my husband Nate to try to figure out how to weld up a steel structure for the ceramic flower heads to attach to. It’s still a work in progress but I’m really excited to get these assembled. Here’s what we’ve got going so far…
The main steel structure is designed to have 18 points and then each ceramic flower head has 18 smaller points and each of those has 18 points, so that the whole structure is a repetition of itself. Patterns like these are found all over in nature but I also love that each piece in individual and unique at the same time.
Just a reminder!
Open Studios is happening very, very soon!!!
Join me October 9, 10, 16 & 17th from 11-5
2523 C Mission St Santa Cruz CA
Artist #243 in the catalog
Way back in 2012, my work was included in the second issue of Ceramics Now Magazine and now nine years later I’m a featured artist on their website. They have work from my Lichen Series and Bone Series from 2014 -2021 posted now. Check it out here…
You can now purchase my latest art catalog ‘inspiration through exploration’ in the online shop!
I was so lucky to have two great articles written about my installation at the Price Sculpture Forest. The Whidbey News Times did an article as well as the Whidbey Weekly – be sure to check them out!
Check out all the photos and information about this installation here!
Lichen Series | Spore Patterns Installation
Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, WA
144″ x 144″ x 18″, ceramic and steel rod, 2021