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 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 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 and hand tools are used for texture when sculpting  the wood look organic forms. The  exaggerated facial features captured are influenced from my years as a medical photographer. 

My daughter Stephanie Boyland Davis joins me this in creating a mixed media series of wall art. Combined we have designed an original new series of work. My  artwork is captured behind glass that has been artistically enhanced using metals, stone and wire created by Stephanie. 

 Giclee prints of my originals in clay as well as paintings are used as a base layer for the wall art tiles and mixed media botanical wall art. I will often further enhance the images before hand mounting the final image.  The tile form initially represented the feeling of being captured inside  during the pandemic. The tile  shape represents the windows looking out into the gardens,  an inspirational view from my studio.

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