About Kathy Boyland

For decades the botanical inspired impressions has captured the delicate details of nature and days gone by on clay, print and wall art tiles. The artwork and production methods are constantly evolving.

I have been creating and selling the impressions for more than 35 years. After purchasing the building located on the grounds of the Maryland Renaissance Festival the decision was made to create throughout the year and only sell in person directly from my building during the festival.

Before creating botanical impressions: 

- I worked in visual communications as a medical photographer at Georgetown University Hospital and medical school. Exaggerated facial features are often sculpted in ceramic form, my interpretation of how some saw themselves prior to plastic and reconstructive surgery.

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- Later I started and managed an art department for a contracting company. 

- My work in clay and print are apart of the Nature Printing Societies collection archived at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Our garden is the main source of plants and inspiration  used to create the botanical  impressions. My husband Steve grows them and I smash them!  

 The impressions are all pieces of art that capture a moment in time much like a modern day fossil.  Stoneware clay is used to create one of a kind impressions and sculptural forms in clay.  of the artwork is designed to be hung on the wall as well as displayed on a tabletop.

Flowers are snipped from the garden, arranged and pressed into clay.  Chunks of wood and hand tools are used for texture when sculpting  the wood look ceramic forms. The  exaggerated facial features captured are influenced from my years as a medical photographer. 

My daughter Stephanie Boyland Davis  will occasionally create some wonderful ugly heads in clay, tree of life macrame  onto a dimensional viney hoop form that Stephanie designed and I sculpt, we  collaborate on a decorative stained glass  piece that encases my art. 

 Giclee images  of the originals may be further enhanced prior to hand transferring the images onto the surface of a wall art tile, prints and magnets. This series of work was introduced during the pandemic. The tile  shape represents looking out at the world from behind windows.   

3d works on canvas are presented  on canvas. A combination of a giclee,  ceramic and decorative papers sculpted into botanical forms, bark  covered wire are arranged  and attached to canvas. 

Enjoy as we have the beauty of nature and days gone captured in clay, print, tile and mixed media art forms.