I am thrilled to have won a grant in the 2003 Artist’s Valentine Grant competition for my Barbie body of work. The juror was Nick  Capasso, director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.  Many thanks to the Artist’s Valentine committee, especially Sally Reed. I have used the award to buy a cement mixer. I ‘m also enjoying working in bronze. Here are two medallions, each about six inches in diameter.

This is St. George W Slaying the Dragon. Pretty puny dragon, isn’t it?

And here is a winged cow, an emblem for creative women dating back to the Egyptian goddess Hathor.


A bronze in the round, a kneeling woman who supports an interlaced man, girl and boy, called  The Family, is off at the Roddy show at the Concord Art Association.

Other progress: the Toyota with its tail fins is now named Winged Victory. Here it is:

Like that setting? It’s a McMansion nearby. I kept waiting for the dogs to attack, or at least a security service to show up, but nobody seemed to mind my parking in the driveway.

Here’s the face in the stone wall out front.

I long to work on it some more, but there’s always so much to do… It’s directly modeled in the fresh mortar, with glass eyes from a taxidermy supplier. And finally, here’s a peek at the Elvis wall fountain.