Accordion Caterpillar Costume for Sitting Only

Bully Pull Toy: Hat for Covering Awkward Moments

Propping up a Tired Houseguest

Idle Carriage Ride - SOLD

Circus Act with Two Deer

Head with Bound Bird Acrobats

I Saw it on T.V. but can He Really do That?

Birdman Pausing

Birdman Listening

Birdman Just Before

First Class Frog Flight - SOLD

Kangaroo Rat Race Rider - SOLD

Monkey on top Pull Toy

Thinking of Donuts

Paper Plane Pilot

Serious Sheep Wheelie - SOLD

Bird 6 - SOLD

Bird 10 - SOLD

Bird 4 -SOLD

She Can't Stop Dancing

Keeping it Under his Hat

Bird 8 - SOLD

Bird 7 - SOLD

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JOHN & ROBIN GUMAELIUS

Robin and John Gumaelius, collaborating artists and husband and wife, create articulated human and birdlike sculptures. They combine ceramic, steel and wood as they form highly inventive sculptures that are often comical or bizarre. Elements of children's stories, religious icons, reliquaries, Medieval and Renaissance history, African skin decoration and holy relics from Germany can be seen in their work.

Each piece begins with an idea and general form on which Robin creates colorful ceramic surface imagery with complex decorative glazes; next John intercedes adding the exquisite metal armatures and wood appendages that bring the sculptures to life. In their highly unusual working relationship as an artistic team, they combine both skill and imagination to build a singularly unusual world out of clay and mixed media.

Robin and John live in a rural area in Washington State where they have built their studio, home, barn, and gardens while nourishing four beautiful children.