Selected Samples of Clay Art
by Wendy S. Timm

Current Series: 

	Specialty Ensembles: Inspired by special events, holidays or seasonal activities, these groupings come straight from the artist's imagination. Individually constructed using the slab method, they are high fired using stoneware glazes and stains.
	Story-Tellers: Native American potters are well-known for their story-teller figures…usually a female figure with small children. These charming and imaginative pieces are a one-of-a-kind originals created in high-fire stoneware. 10"-18" high.
	Fetish Pots and Boxes: The fetish pot is a small coiled vessel paddled to an angular "rock" form. Atop each lid is a cloven-hoofed southwestern animal or lizard. While the Fetish pots are fired to stoneware temperatures, the geometric box forms are either stoneware or raku, and are slab-constructed.
	Outdoor Sculpture Series: These high-fire stoneware pieces are virtually impervious to weather. Lifelike sculptural pieces are inspired by animals of the southwest such as javelinas, tortoises and rabbits. Works range from serious to whimsical. Life cast torsos can be displayed indoors or outdoors, as can the "sandcrabs", "sonoran sand slugs" and a variety of other characters in the artist's imaginative menagerie. The sculptural pieces are constructed using the slab method and fired to 2380° utilizing glazes and/or oxides for enhancement.
	Wall Plaques: Stoneware and raku two-dimensional pieces can be hung or displayed flat. Each is unique, as designs are never mass-produced. Fashioned after shards of rock, influences include petroglyphs, Native American pottery designs, animal studies, and sun masks (which can also go outdoors).
	Militia Series: This whimsical series incorporates realistically sculpted desert creatures juxtaposed in today's warfaring society. Armed with weaponry ranging from uzis to six-shooters, "arming the innocent" takes on a new meaning, not to mention the concept of "food chain!"
	Miscellaneous Work: This prolific clay artist also creates landscape vessels, ornaments (ask about her Javelina Angels and Wicked Gingerbreadmen for your Christmas tree), decorative hanging shards, working whistles and ocarinas, kitchen magnets, and cow pie containers (remember…she’s from Wisconsin!)

Past Series:

	Ceremonial Pipes and Rattles: High-fired stoneware, colored with oxides. Based on ancient Indian pipes and rattles which were used for ceremonial purposes, her decorative (but still functional) versions are typically adorned with lizards and other southwest animals.
	Gothic Series: Medieval, Gothic and Baroque art history inspired this series of Gargoyle pieces, which are formed using the slab method of construction and are either high-fired to cone 10 or raku fired.
	Warlord Series: Mostly raku, these designs are based on science-fiction and historical research, and include battle helmets, sculptural busts, relief carvings and vessels.

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