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...

You know that saying when you start something new about how first you have to get your feet wet? Well, umm...although no one formally...

For so long, I was used to having just one studio at The Clay Lady Campus in Nashville, where I loved seeing my clay friends, having...

If you want to learn to sculpt, my advice is to get rid of those self-imposed expectations and just enjoy yourself. Let yourself be a...

Thank you for stopping by and connecting! Art as a Life Transition: from being inside people's heads to sculpting portraits of heads As a...