Ceramics

Between 6500-3500 BC, there existed in what is now Eastern Europe and the northern Mediterranean a predominate culture whose people were deeply and profoundly in tuned with the natural world and the rhythms of the earth and sky.  Archeologists have termed this culture “Old European”.  For more than 3000 years, the Old European culture flourished as an agrarian and peaceful culture, in which the unity and mystery of all life in Nature was observed and honored.  They recognized that life on Earth was in constant movement and transformation, in continual rhythmic change between creation and destruction, birth and death.  The art and spirituality of these people was primarily represented through the images and symbols of the Great Goddess.  She encompassed the Mother Goddess, the Bird Goddess, the Snake Goddess and others, but she was not solely a goddess of fertility and motherhood, but expressed aspects of life-giving and death-wielding power, regeneration and renewal, Life Energy, the source and giver of all.

The ceramic sculptures of the artist convey the spirituality of the Old European culture using the images of the goddess and her symbols, including the spiral, labyrinth, serpent, chevron, cosmic egg and womb, triangle, net, and seeds.  Many of these symbols are universal, and are found in earth-honoring cultures throughout time.  The artist also draws upon these cultures, primarily from northern Europe and the southwest United States, creating sculptures representing temples, shrines, altar pieces and panels to create a sense of the mystery of the sacred.