This special wand / talisman appeared on my studio desk this week.
It’s the second piece I’ve made like this. The first one was using a piece of driftwood and this one, I created around one of my baby seal bones from the delicate remains I found on the rocks in Hermanus, Cape Town a few years back. I love honoring these bones this way… repurposing them and giving them new life.
She is a perfect representation of the work I’ll be teaching and sharing in Orvieto in May next year with my hand building sculpture class… combining organic elements like bone, wood, shells, leather, quills and feathers.
I will be teaching a variety of different projects and this will be one of them.
I hope you will consider joining me.
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She was a joy to make from beginning to end and sometimes pieces just flow so elegantly and she was one of them. She is wonderful to hold and has a slightly weighted feel to her. I love that she can stand propped up on her quills.
I am always amazed at the level of vulnerability and tenderness these pieces can evoke and the beautiful lessons I learn from each one. She is made up of organic elements from all over - quills from my folks farm, a seagull feather from my new beach here in Portugal, a seal bone from Hermanus, a leather string from Cape Town and clay from my hands and heart, to yours!
