Robin and John Gumaelius
Robin and John Gumaelius are parents to Ruby, Eliza, Carmela and Cecil. Their young family works and plays together developing a small farm where they can be self sustaining. They care deeply about the earth, environment, and the well being of humanity. Their life experience is reflected in the sculpture they create.
Robin says "Our art is us talking. There is a little magic in it. Together, we make something better than either of us could make apart. We work together fluidly, except that John does the metal. We build our birds and figures using clay slabs. When the pieces are leather hard, we paint them with underglazes. Then we carve through the painted surface to the white clay. Radio stories, history books, biking adventures, gardening notes, neighbors spied, strangers watched in stores and parks and cars jangle together in our heads and come so freely to our fingers that when we see the pieces finished we are often delighted--as if we are not their creators; they just come to talk with us for a while and then leave again."