I am a sculptor and a painter. I combine sculptural forms and a painterly surface, in order to create a work of art through the storytelling of narrated, surrealistic, rendered painting. For me painting on clay is not just a decoration; it is a natural fusion between the three-dimensional form and a two-dimensional surface. My sculptures are handbuilt out of clay and hand-painted with underglazes. All my work is an attempt to deal with psychological issues and explore emotions and feelings in depth. I am interested in examining the entity of the form during the process of transitioning from one realm to the other, from one stage of development to the next one. I use an abstract figurative shape to suggest the ambiguity of the process, signify the importance of the change and difficulty of the transitioning. In my creative process I explore the relationship between sculptural form and the surface treatment and integrate the idea of interchangeability between a flat image and the three-dimensionality of sculpture. My sculptures convey the inner world of a person—a world remembered or imagined from the past; a world of a dream, or a nightmare; a world of unfulfilled expectations.

White stoneware

cone 5, 2164° F

Coil-building using flat coils

Carving and underglaze painting