Meet Kiwi. He’s a lovable, sweet, energetic and smart Australian Shepherd owned by Marguerite Ostreicher’s son. This young man is attending college and misses Kiwi very much. So Marguerite had me sculpt Kiwi in wool as a Xmas gift for her son so he could have Kiwi with him. Kiwi has a favorite toy: a [...]
A lovely woman commissioned me to sculpt a sitting tiger for her daughter who attends Colorado College. The mascot is a tiger. I was excited and somewhat daunted. All those stripes!! Plus her daughter and husband are both artists and she is quite the art connoisseur herself! The pressure was on. I gathered a few photos [...]
This is the Cover of the 2013 FarmGirl Arts Animal Sculptures in Wool Calendar. I chose some of my best photographed sculptures to feature. Order yours now at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/115015570/2013-calendar-of-sculpture-originals
This is Yam. She’s a special cow who was friend to Cheryl Ferguson of Plum Granny Farm in Stokes County. She lived a very wholesome and luxurious life until her untimely death by dogs. I was asked by Ray Teugle, Cheryl’s husband, to sculpt a portrait of Yam for Cheryl’s birthday. I did my best [...]
Spinning is something I do to relax and because I just love the idea of making my own yarns from my sheep and the wool I have rescued or gotten from folks who have fiber animals they love, but don’t want the fiber. It’s nice to sit with my family in the den as they [...]
This is my most exciting sculpture project, because I not only love to look at horses, but I owned, showed and bred horses for years in my teens and 20′s. I feel that I know the energy and body of horses so deeply, like my own skin and muscles, because of all the time I [...]
I love going to SAFF!! It is my only annual vacation. What makes it so special is that the trip combines so many smaller things I love: staying with relatives, hanging out with my sheep, competing with my sheep, seeing other people’s sheep, hanging out with friends that I see only at SAFF, and shopping [...]
Sometimes my clients send me photos of my sculptures they commissioned or were given. Here are three. This is the real Seymour with my sculpture of him. “Who’s this guy trying to fool?” My first elephant, Matriarch, is standing tall among the other elephants in a collection in New York. Here is my son Josh’s [...]
This is Seymour. He was commissioned by an artist friend of mine for her mother. He’s an older fella now and very sophistiCatted. So my friend wished to have him honored before his passing. He wears lovely gloves and stockings, even around the house! The sculpture is much larger than I usually make (3.5 – [...]
The above photo is of world champion dressage horse Totilas from Germany. I have LOVED horses since I was 4 or 5 when I put the word “horse” together with the animal. The feeling could not be squelched no matter what my parents tried. I wore out all the knees in my pants by crawling [...]
