About KBoyland Designs

For decades my botanical inspired impressions has involved capturing the delicate details of nature and days gone by in clay, print and wall art tile forms. The artwork is constantly evolving, often times reflecting the ever changing world we live in. 

Before creating botanical impressions: 

- I was 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 contractor company. 

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

Our garden is the main source of inspiration and plants used to create the 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 is used to create the one of a kind impressions in clay.  Most all of the artwork is designed to be hung on the wall or displayed on a counter top. 

Flowers are snipped from the garden, arranged and pressed into clay.  Chunks of wood are used for texture when sculpting faces and other organic forms. My daughter Stephanie designed the vine hoops used in the dimensional macrame Tree of Life forms. I create the ceramic wood with vine outer form and she creates the tree form in macrame. Wood look faces are individually hand sculpted. The  exaggerated facial features are influenced from my years as a medical photographer.  Found  objects, especially those collected out in nature are used to texture and enhance the surface design. Giclee prints using archival quality inks are used as a base layer for the wall art tiles. The original art used to create wall art tiles are the botanical impressions  in clay as well as hand painted botanical impressions of the garden. I will often further enhance the images before hand mounting the final image onto tile.  Wall art tiles  initially represented the feeling of being captured inside  during the pandemic. The tile  shape represents a window looking out into the gardens, the view from my studio. The images are reminiscent of old world botanical illustrations and  waiting for spring series of paintings.

Enjoy as I have the beauty of nature and days gone by in my one of a kind clay works and giclee enhanced handmade wall art tiles.