Studio Musings In reviewing the year of 2024, I can see that I've met a number of my sculpting goals--completing several commissions,...

One thing I’m learning about sculpting is that it’s a much more expensive endeavor than I’d ever imagined, so as I enter the...

Instagram has helped me scratch off yet another item on my Bucket List and meet top knotch sculpting instructors from whom I've taken...

And in the expenses column, here is a wall of my 2023 new studio. The good news is that it's a mile from my home and I'm renting from an...

I really didn't mean to go so long without more frequent updates to my blog, but time has had a way of getting away from me. It seems...

Here it is mid-January 2023 and I'm already thinking about the beach. Well, not really. I've actually just returned from a 5 day figure...

What a thrill it was to have friends I hadn't seen in 50 years come from Illinois and Atlanta, to Starry Night, just to see my sculpture...

My apologizes for being so far behind on blogs. Although I have a few workshops to catch you up on, I won't be doing that today because...

More expectations of myself as an artist? More identity confusion as an artist? Am I a craftsperson? A fine artist? All that I really...

And so, you ask, "How do you do this?" The good news about sculpting with clay as opposed to a harder material like wood or stone is that...

It's the first time in the almost 5 years I've been doing clay that I've become creatively stuck, and I did it to myself after displaying...

She'd been sitting around the studio for years and wasn't exactly the best piece I've ever done, but all it took was the right holiday...

A clay studio isn't always pretty, especially during that more intense making period before a show, but a blog is a good thing to do as a...

Today is September 11, 2021, and while it almost seems sacrilegious to write any sort of sculpting blog on the 20th anniversary of the...

I wish that this summer were one in which we were all simply enjoying the usual summer delights...playing in the water whether by the...

Creative generosity and generativity, that is. Having just returned from a six day figurative sculpting workshop taught by Brian Booth...

This photo is from the last day of "Adult Summer Camp", where I sculpted my first attempt at expression, Pandemic Sadness. It was a...

You can drive yourself crazy trying to find that perfect shade. I've gotten to the "Good Enough" stage with a recent nude figurative...

Validation, that is. As a therapist, I've spent much of my career validating other's intuitions, judgments, perceptions, experiences,...

After my mad rush staying up late making molds for the TN Craft Fair in order to be able to demonstrate the processes of mold making and...