Marta Stafford
One of the nicest surprises of the summer came from the amazing Marta Stafford, who invited me to be a part of her hugely popular gallery, Marta Stafford Fine Art, in Marble Falls.
This is a dream come true – I loved Marta’s gallery from the first moment I saw it six or seven years ago.She has the absolute best in mixed media, sculpture, contemporary and traditional painting, and more. Marta will represent me and my work (woohoo), and I’ll be featured in the exhibit that opens Friday, October 6th.
I need to create some nifty new work for this show, especially imaginative assemblages, so I started digging around for earthenware body parts! Heh, heh.
It’s so much fun putting my clay shards together with found objects and watching new critters emerge. Here’s the progress so far – some are not finished, as you can see – perhaps you can see where they are going? One never knows, do one?
This is a details of a piece I really like
There is actually another face underneath the one you see. Her arm moves in a sweet, spooky way – she’s about 12″ tall.
The one below is just started, but I like the simple elegance so far.
When finished, this piece will be about 18-20″ tall
Shades of spirit dolls! This construction, below, has some hand-dyed and rusted mulberry paper.
And while I was looking for clay body parts, I found this cat head! It’s now a new Cat Shaman.
Finally, here’s one I started a couple of weeks ago and it’s finally starting to come together. It looks like some sort of ancient goddess staff.
So far, every piece is different from every other one – interesting.
I plan to have a number of these assemblages as well as some paintings and collages for Marta’s opening on Friday, October 6th at the Marta Stafford Fine Arts in Marble Falls.
Thanks, Marta, for the invitation – prepare for a critter invasion! ♥