Ceramic Art

I have been creating ceramic art impressions for approximately 30 years.  K Boyland Designs was established in the 1990's.  I am the owner/artist since the beginning.  My daughter Stephanie joins me occasionally on weekends creating some of our ugly heads and faces captured in clay.  Before smashing things in clay and sculpting faces I was a medical photographer at Georgetown University Medical Center, worked for a government contractor as a computer programmer as well as starting and managing their art department.

I am capturing the delicate details of real plants and the texture of wood directly onto the surface of the clay as a start point.  The ugly heads and faces are sculpted into the wood textured clay, my version of a tree spirit.  The clay works are fired in a kiln twice.  The clay works are all one of a kind, signed and dated.  They are designed to be hung on the wall or displayed on a table top.  The clay pieces are not to be used to serve food, it is art.

The digital lithographs are images of original impressions in clay. Two of the originals in clay and digital lithographs are archived permanently at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Take a break, have some fun and see the impressions in person at the Maryland Renaissance Festival.  Stop by my merchant shop to say hey and take home a lasting memory of the festival and days gone by.  

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