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.  Each piece is kiln fired multiple times.  Most of the artwork is designed to be hung on the wall as well as displayed on a tabletop.

Botanicals are  gathered from the garden, arranged and pressed into clay.   Hand tools  and wood are used  to create texture when sculpting  the  one of a kind wood look ceramic forms. The  exaggerated facial features captured  in clay are influenced from my years as a medical photographer and a an imagination that simply goes wild at times!

Occasionally my daughter Stephanie Boyland Davis  joins me in creating wonderful ugly faces and heads in clay,  she sculpts and I  finish the surface.  An original design  by of  the Tree of  Life  combines macrame  onto a dimensional clay vine hoop form, on these collaborative  one of a kind pieces. Stephanie designed. and creates the  macrame tree form onto the vine form  created by Kathy. We also collaborate on a decorative glass  framed  piece  enhanced  with stone and wire, it encases one of Kathy’s giclee.

 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.   

Mixed media artwork is presented on canvas . It may include a  combination of ceramic, giclee, decorative papers  some sculpted into botanical forms, bark , decorative wire , stones and other found objects and materials.

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