Pumpkin Hollow, Size: wood base by Wendy Brabender

8 1/2x5 1/2Wood base (9 1/2” x 6 3/4”) Ceramic sculpture by Wendy Brabender

Artist Statement:

 I have been making for pottery about 20 years. I have always been a crafty person since birth, drawing and painting, along with doing ceramics with my mother. Slip casting the infamous Ceramic Christmas trees and many many trolls and gnomes moved through my hands. My Grandmother on my mothers side painted porcelain, covering plates and bowls and cups in beautiful berries and flowers. My father loved drawing cartoons and playing the drums in a band. (Polka) 
    After my oldest son graduated from UW Whitewater in Ceramics, he started an adult enrichment class for Ceramics at the local High School, which being the devoted mother, I signed up to attend. And after two classes, my clay experience expanded to what it is today. 
   My work is mostly slab, and over the years I have found out that you can almost make anything out of a slab of clay.  I enjoy making both functional ware and sculptural pieces. My color pallet is endless and I have a plethora of glazes. My passion is making face jugs, and putting whimsical faces on any clay object makes me smile. Toad Houses, Fairy Houses, Bird Houses go well for the gardens and my best seller is a Thumbeez, which is a small piece of clay that starts its life on my thumb and becomes an endless character of infinite expressions.
   I have my own ceramics studio at my home and I can be found on average, five Art Fairs a year in Wisconsin.
Wendy