Ceramic Art & Sculpture
is an artist and clay sculptor. Her sculptures of figures, torsos, and busts portray expression, myths, stories and elements of ancient civilizations.
Kerry Kirkpatrick
grew up in Arizona where pastel sandstone formations carved by nature look like giant clay sculptures. The strata of the compressed layers appear as if they were thrown pots in abstract human forms.
She has always felt a deep connection with these ancient rock formations in Arizona and New Mexico, and the deep red earth color like the clay she frequently uses — ancient clay particles from millions and millions of years of underwater sea beds pushed up by tectonic forces.
She also feels drawn to the architecture and art of ancient Mediterranean and Yucatan civilizations and has spent much time traveling and studying in these areas.
Kerry has a M.A. in New Media from New York University and worked as a web developer and online manager for 25 years.
Clay as a medium
Kerry primarily hand builds with clay and coil slab technique but also uses the potters wheel.
She pushes her comfort zones with clay and experiments with new techniques and sculptural compositions for deep inner expression that is influenced by her experiences but that also comes from a connection to other levels of being that she learned while growing up on an Apache reservation in Arizona.
Each piece has a story and that evolves during the composition and is sometimes formed by the clay body itself and how it naturally forms by chance.