I'm a mixed-media artist and most enjoy creating 3D forms that enliven and repurpose found or rejected objects. As an art late-bloomer, I joyfully discover my creative qualities that I knew little of. I prefer making sculptures that reveal good craft, while showcasing the beauty of natural materials.
"It is while carving stone that you discover the spirit of your material and the properties peculiar to it.
Your hand thinks and follows the thoughts of the material" Constantin Brancusi
Known for my stone 'Women'; yet, that's not all I make.
My recent landscape works invite you to find them, while they last.
Contemplating how to integrate this piece of raw stone into a revised base for 'Anchored' to show-off her wonderful lats!
Flipped for a different perspective.
Playing about with base materials for 'Accomplished II', or maybe 'Violet'?
I rather wonder what Brancusi would have thought of Dan Flavin's 1963 dedication to him - arrogance?
A fine stone form atop a reflective surface that adds remarkable depth placed on a substantial carved wood base. Going to use a similar language with select forms from Women.
Super inspired by this piece - big chunk of carved wood, simple shaped marble, reflective metal disc in support of the star attraction.
Brancusi's use of stone and wood is so perfect - like they can't exist apart.
The Master, Constantin Brancusi - it's all about the bas(e)! Utterly inspired visiting the George Pompidou Centre in Paris!
Picasso often used found objects to construct 3D works from which he painted his masterpieces.
Always astonished by the gifts the stone has hidden inside!
Beautiful piece of rose alabaster revealing her special features.
Trying out floral sculpting techniques having been inspired by various examples.
You have to get in quick; this one was broken down (not by nature) within 24hrs.
'Fulfilling', 03/24.
A few of these are popping up in my local woodlands. So nice to be engaging with nature again.
'Iter', site wood and stone, 2022, Zugersee, CH
'#myview', Carrara marble offcuts & steel. 2022, CH
SOLD 'Supernatural', driftwood, alabaster, steel. 2022, CH
'Cousins', found sticks and beach sand, 2022, Busselton, WA
The beginning ;)
220328. 'In-between', site wood, Zugersee.
I wonder how many notice this?
220321. 'Sheltered', site wood & stone, Zugersee.
I love that it mimics the Rigi.
220315. 'Refuge', site wood & stone, Zugersee.
At a glance, would you think nature, or (my) nurture?
You're beautiful, however you're made. Appreciate what you see in the mirror, celebrate your uniqueness. Every bit of it.
'Supernatural'
Driftwood, epoxy resin, alabaster, steel, 2022, CH
57x32x20cm
'Developed'
Soapstone, sharpening block, steel, 2022, CH
52x33x29cm
'Myriad'
Alabaster caramel,
2022, CH
30x38x25cm
'Elegance'
Serpentine, upcycled bankirai, steel, 2022, CH
55x33x17cm
'Visitor'
Rigi Nagelfluh,
2021, CH
75x46x30cm
'Sage'
Serpentine & driftwood, 2021, CH
30x38x25cm
'Emerge'
Alabaster caramel,
2021, CH
30x25x18cm
Serpentine,
2020, NL
36x20x17cm
'Anchored'
Serpentine cobalt, oak, pebble, steel, 2020, NL
41x16x16cm
'Fractured'
Soapstone, bankirai, steel, 2020, NL
61x22x16cm
Speckstein,
2019, NL
31x15x14cm
'Triumph'
Soapstone, oak, steel, 2020, CH & NL
33x14x7cm
Speckstein, oak, steel, 2015, CH
87x35x25cm
'Expectant'
Alabaster blue (rare), concrete, steel, 2014, CH
47x19x21cm
'Accomplished'
Alabaster black, granite, steel, 2014, CH
43x25x26cm
Speckstein,
2014, CH
47x16x16cm
Alabaster dark grey,
2013, CH
24x10x8cm
'Violet'
Alabaster dark grey,
2013, CH
31x23x20cm
'Pared'
Alabaster transparent, 2013, CH
35x19x16cm
'Pared'
Alabaster white opaque, 2013, CH
29x15x15cm
I'm moving toward landscape art intended for outdoor installation, invited to converse with nature, and to even return to it. Past works are also shown, including exhibited works and several produced for my 2011 stint at art school. My works are in private collections in several countries.
'#myview', 2022, CH.
Carrara marble offcuts, steel.
70x200x10cm
Beginning.
To see if I could.
Stone waste-pile mined for 'big' pieces to construct a form without mortar. Natural materials are never rubbish.
Rainy day walk thru my 2022 'Naturally: An exhibition of artworks inspired by nature's gifts' held at the lakeside gallery Haus am See in Unteraegeri. Revealing my creative shift to landscape interactions and repurposing found objects, with an aim to question what's nature and/or nurture. The greatest fortune of my art-making is the intimacy I have with the natural materials stone and wood, and nature herself. We have deeply honest conversation that's a privilege.
Twelve of my 'Women' series were shown together for the first time in a pop-up exhibition in a vacant shop on the very funky Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam, NL. Needing a Covid-pivot or two around imposed lockdowns & my big birthday celebration, I was pleased with the self-curated space, & humbled by the interest of visitors when sharing the individual, at times personal, stories of the making of each form.
2020 brought many challenges, but also triumph.
I created this water feature for my small inner city garden in Rotterdam, NL. Materials were sourced from the building site as found objects or remnants of construction. I combined the work with hard landscaping features to add height and sensorial interest to the garden designed by Floor & Victor, and planted by me. The character of rusting metal, flowing water, and seasonal plantings, all changing with time and conditions, was wonderful.
'Between Junctions', a sculpture & performance work responding to the brief, 'self'; references the thoracic spine, between the neck & back junctions.
The work's title points to my own junction & pondering next steps.
Perhaps a new journey was to begin?
Comprised of 12 vertebra and intervening discs, increasing in size from top to bottom.
All found materials, wood scaled to vertebra size, electrical wiring depicting cord & nerves, and cable ties as bony processes.
Steel as 'backbone'.
Exhibited in our group student show, the work was later sold.
Deconstructed installation referring to the performance piece.
Using 25 hand-pressed, moulded, fired clay pieces, suspended by copper wire with adjustable aluminium fixing, to a steel frame with square base & top.
'Outside the Square' nods to my character, the odd combination of materials & form, & my inspiration, Leonardo's 'Last Supper' & the vanishing point.
Selected in an open call for a popular local art show.