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This sculpture has two different sides. The front has a face with one malachite eye, a turned up nose and a rather kissable mouth. Behind it an owl is perched in the hollow of its head. The title of the clay sculpture is “Birdbrain”.

“These are some of the small sculptures I made during my first spurt of excitement working with clay. (I made the vase and flowers too.) Rod made the little chair for the nude sitting on it but she was pretty well smashed up when a window-washer I employed knocked

There is not much of a recorded story for this sculptured owl. One can see immediately that a complicated owl with feathers and colours has been reduced to a minimalist piece of sculpting. Joy had considerably more familiarity with owls than most people because son Rod spent many days and

“My windows needed cleaning one year so I hired a man to do the job as some of them had to be done from a ladder outside. All went well until he came indoors to do the other side of the windows. This little sculpture, leaning on a shard of

Back in the old days some of us joined an Adults- only Art class at a local school for a year. It was a great opportunity to use clay and have it fired and glazed in the sculptors’ studio. I loved working three-dimensionally and still do on occasion but,

“This little frame had been hanging around for a long time before I found anything I thought would fit into it. The little face was made with Fimo, there is a stick underneath the butterfly to act as an anchor so I glued it all down and called it Flutterby.