“Emergence”

Bronze
(1 of 3)
50 cm x 9 cm

This is the emergence of myself after floundering in a void of “where do I fit”, I came back from having died without knowing how to “be”. Who did I belong to, who was I, now, then. Why did I feel disconnected yet connected to the parts of me that had changed through that experience and the new and old elements being altered, removed, added. I developed in my uncertainty from an embryonic form to a new born to a child crying in desperation for the loss, grieving because I didn’t know anything and yet I did and maybe this was worse. My life was in turmoil. I emerged and began drawing, painting and creating in glass this figure of me. I love this image it is contained, holding all that I am.

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“New Start”

Wax
3.5 cm x 3.8 cm

A maquette for a future sculpture. I had developed in my uncertainty from an embryonic form to a new born to a child crying in desperation for the loss, grieving because I didn’t know anything and yet I did and maybe this was worse. This is the newborn but also has elements of the embryonic. I have a silver sculpture of this piece which I plan to incorporate within a glass box that sits inside many surrounding boxes. The Boxes Within Boxes being another significant theme in my artwork.

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“Crystal Lights”

Glass kiln formed fused and slumped
L15 cm x W8 cm x D50 cm

Exquisite iridescent fragments catching the light through depths of frosted crystal. I love the diverse and amazing results that are possible when using glass. It is always exciting to see what the firing has done to the glass. The melding of materials and colours, the reflections, bubbles and the depths where you just fall into the liquid melt. Initially this piece was modelled in clay, from which a plaster mould was made and then I pushed dichroic frit deep into the crevices before adding the clear billets. This was then fired. I wasn’t sure where the frit would end up, would it float up into the clear glass to almost disappear, become irrelevant or stay where it was. It stayed and the result is wonderful.

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“Broken”

Bronze
42 cm x 40 cm

I first began this project in 2001 when I created a ceramic version – the original, then this year I had a bronze made. The original ceramic sculpture came about as a result of my reaction to the injuries to my body, punctured lung, shattered shoulder and broken collar bone and all the internal unseen and undiagnosed and medically discounted trauma hidden but lingering in the fibre of my being. From that sculpture the rest followed as a natural progression of what I am.

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“Out of the Fire”

700 h x 800 w

This was hand built in Earthenware clay and fired with a variety of ash giving the surface a wonderful earthy just out of the charcoal flames finish. Unfortunately it didn’t survive the firing as another pot (not mine) in the same kiln was still wet and as a result exploded and damaged every other pot in the kiln. This was heartbreaking as I love the process of hand building and as this was a large pot it had taken me several weeks to complete. One of the cracks is visible in the photo. There were many more on the over sides making it very unstable. I eventually had to “throw it away”.

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“Metamorphosis”

Carved canadian oregon pine

A sculpture of myself emerging with an understanding of the artist I am becoming. In my clasped left hand I hold the essence of my creativity that is yet to fully unfold. At this time I was working and enrolled in several night art classes, sculpture which I did for 3 years and loved every moment of it, printmaking and the etchings that captured and entranced me. I became so emotionally and mentally immersed in the art I was producing, the techniques I was learning about. My unconscious self awakened and bombarded me with images and dreams of creativity. It was an exhilarating time in my life.

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“A Space For Me”

Modelled in clay glass kiln cast
L10 cm x W10 cm x D4.5 cm

I’m sitting, waiting, for what? I don’t know. The next part of the journey. To where? It doesn’t really matter because till now it has been a rollercoaster ride with its own direction taking me along for the ride of discovery of myself and the things around me. Here in this tiny piece of glass I sit within the quiet peaceful space. It is my space/place. It allows for a moment of solitude, of nothingness, me time, where I can be myself.

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“Tragic Reality”

Glass kiln cast
57 cm x 53 cm

A 4 piece cast sculptural form in black glass powder. with a fused and slumped 3 mm dichroic glass overlay I first began this project in 2001 when I created a ceramic version – the original, then this year I had a bronze made. I have the mould from which I will be able to create it in different mediums in many different ways.

The original ceramic sculpture came about as a result of my reaction to the injuries to my body, punctured lung, shattered shoulder and broken collar bone and all the internal unseen and undiagnosed and medically discounted trauma hidden but lingering in the fibre of my being. From that sculpture the rest followed as a natural progression of what I am.

The brilliance of life’s inescapable energy bursts from the thin shell whilst below in stark contrast lies the blackened inert legacy of injury, pain and loss.The right ½ torso intact, black, hides the tragedy and holds it tight within.

The Left ½ torso without its shell reveals the disconnectedness separated into compartments of trauma. The shell has slipped and what is in front of me is my reality. This cast piece in glass is linked to the glass shards that penetrated my face, arms and legs after my head shattered the side window in the car. The poems “Sliced Slices Slice” and “Set In Glass” continue this theme.

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