This ceramic pendant's olive green, metallic coils were made by extruding the clay through a circular die. Its metallic sheen was achieved through a second glaze firing. I patterned the coils into their 3-dimensional swirls by hand and bound the finished pendant with a flexible, decorative, yellow-green wire...
This ceramic pendant's mottled brown, metallic coils were made by extruding the clay through a circular die. Its metallic sheen was achieved through a second glaze firing. I patterned the coils into their 3-dimensional swirls by hand and bound the finished pendant with a flexible, decorative, silver wire...
This ceramic pendant's fluid, sea-foam green coils were made by extruding the clay through a triangular-shaped die. I patterned the coils into their three-dimensional form by hand and bound the finished pendant with a flexible, decorative, bright-copper wire...
This ceramic pendant has two separate sets of coils winding their way into a necklace. The first, a fire-red, rough-edged curly-cue, was made by extruding clay through a square die. The second is a slim, vibrant purple swirl made by a circular die...
This ceramic pendant's delicate, fire-red coils were made by extruding the clay through a tiny circular die. The glaze pooled during firing, creating a totally unique color pattern -like a swirling vortex...
This ceramic pendant's soft purple petals were made by hand-pressing clay into a plaster mold and hand-carving the finished details into the final piece. I created the original orchid by carving the shape directly into clay, then poured the plaster mold myself...