Artist Statement:
HELEN KEY-MORGAN

Visual imagery inspires me. I am compelled by color, light, shape, stature, and the drama that these elements create. I became an artist to define and express what intrigues me visually.

I am interested in works of art that can convey a multiplicity of distinct essentials — emotion, narrative elements and inner dialogue, the physical and the ephemeral, the past and the present. It is with these fundamental pieces as tools that the narrative inherent within each of my works is conveyed.

I began my career in art as a painter, studying under Robert Beale and Richard MacLean in the style of Photo Realism. I quickly became seduced by the sensuality and tactile nature of the clay medium.

In my sculptures, the imagery develops through a collision of technical processes: drawing, slip casting, painting (with slip and underglaze) and commercial decals. I create my sculptures in high fire ceramic.