Unusual Gift Ideas

“Giraffe and Baby” Bronze

Loet Vanderveen
14” high, 14” wide Bronze sculpture with carmel patina. Limited edition # 193 of 750.

A great holiday gift idea from Geoffrey Roth. Loet Vanderveen is especially known for freeze-framing the essence of an animal in astounding and realistic detail. His exquisite, velvety patinas of ebony, browns, burgundies, reds, jade greens, and silver grays are carefully selected to grace and enhance each sculpture, making them beautiful to the eye as well as the touch.

Chulucana Lovers

Hand molded  clay
13.5”x10.5”x9.5”
Hand sculpted clay and hand painted Chulucana Lovers.
A great holiday gift idea from El Picaflor. The primary material used for Chulucana  Pottery is native Peruvian clay and mango leaves. The artist starts kneading the clay until it is easy to mold and use the paddle and the polishing stone to give it shape. Then the piece is placed in a low firing oven to obtain what is called bisque. Then the piece is placed in another kiln fed with mango leaves to acquire the semi-dark hue characteristic of Chulucana ceramics.

“Jeeves”

 Mary Dewey
Hand-built clay figure, Raku fired
12” high, 11” wide, 3” deep 

A great holiday gift idea from Inner Eye Gallery. Mary Dewey, a nationally recognized ceramic artist, was raised in southern Florida and studied art at the Cleveland Institute of Art.  She opened a studio in Ohio in the early 70’s and taught ceramics and sculpture at Muskingum College.  She eventually moved to the foothills of the Appalachians and built her house and studio in the woods, a mile from the nearest road, with no utilites or running water, where she began to work in simplicity and earnest.  One day she was adopted by a special cat who came marching through the woods on the day of the first firing of her new kiln.  It is tradition among potters that a new kiln have a kiln god and so the cat was named “Kaygee”, which is short for “kiln god”, and from thereafter she was inspired to to make cat designs.  Although Mary’s house and studio have moved and now have become civilized, complete with utilities and even a flush toilet, she still finds peace and inspiration in the woods and hills of southeastern Ohio.  This cat was named by our Gallery.