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Barbara Foster:
polymer clay
My art has always been "dragon rich", even before I accepted that I was an "artist" Mostly self taught, I
started working in "sculpture" at age 10 - "monsters" (which even then had a strong dragon
element to them) made out of colored telephone wire. The move to more substantial sculpture was, initially, a response to necessity. Since my favorite
topic is dragons, and since it is DIFFICULT to get a dragon to pose (!), I had to sculpt the
critters before I could draw them. It didn't take long for me to drop the 2nd step and start
perfecting my sculptures. There is something almost... therapeutic about working in clay, or sculpy. To mold and squeeze
and manipulate the medium into something that grows before your eyes has a magic feeling to it.
Something now exists that didn't before. Something that you can reach out and touch, that has
substance under your fingers. Something that you can walk around and see new facets of with
each step. Something that holds its own and says "I am..." And, I have moved in on the subject from a slightly different angle, as
well.
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