Holly Deckard is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of June 2018. She is a Missouri based artist and sculptor who works primarily with clay. Her current body of work consists of sculptures which explore the goddess contained in all women.

Holly’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of June 2018. The gallery will promote Holly and her work on the Fusion Art website, in Fusion Art’s Artsy.net Gallery, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 2000 collectors, galleries, buyers and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets. Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Holly’s Biography and Artist Statement below as she describes her history, inspiration and process in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Holly’s work, please visit her website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Holly’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Holly and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Holly Deckard’s Biography

Holly has loved playing with mud ever since she was a small girl. Every summer, she would take buckets of water from the kiddy pool to make a big mud pond behind the shed, and use the earth to create! She grew up, started a family and got her degree in nutrition science, where her love of food, science and playing with the dirt in her garden grew. She stumbled upon working with clay in 2011 when she took a workshop at the local high school. Holly was immediately captivated by the process of creating with clay and wanted to learn more. As she explored the art and science of ceramics she discovered a passion that surprised her!

Holly Deckard’s Artist Statement

My greatest joy comes from trying new techniques and experimenting with new forms. My most recent exploration is making sculptures focused on the female form. I love to make each form somewhat realistic, while incorporating abstract and goddess-like qualities as well. My current body of work consists of sculptures which explore the goddess contained in all women. The sculptures are formed from wheel thrown pieces which are then altered, sculpted and pigmented with of iron oxides, giving them a timeless quality. Each goddess is unique like the real women who inspired them; My hope is to speak to the “inner goddess” in each of us. I relish the process of using the elements – earth, water and fire – to experiment with different shapes, textures, glaze combinations and surface pigments to craft beautiful and unique pottery creations.

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