About Kathy Boyland

For decades the botanical inspired impressions has captured the delicate details of nature and days gone by on clay, print and wall art tiles. The artwork and production methods are constantly evolving.

I have been creating and selling the impressions for nearly 4 decades, how time flies when you follow your passion. After purchasing the building located on the grounds of the Maryland Renaissance Festival the decision was made to create throughout the year and only sell in person directly from my building during the festival.

Before creating botanical impressions: 

- I worked in visual communications as a medical photographer at Georgetown University Hospital and medical school. Exaggerated facial features are often sculpted in ceramic form, my interpretation of how some saw themselves prior to plastic and reconstructive surgery.

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- Later I started and managed an art department for a contracting company for nearly a decade until the art department went up in flames, literally speaking.

- My work in clay and print are apart of the Nature Printing Societies collection archived at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Our garden is the main source of plant materials and inspiration used to create the botanical  impressions. My husband Steve grows them and I smash them! My daughter Stephanie and I collaborate on some of the amazing sculptural forms in clay and wall art tiles. 

The botanical impressions, sculptural and  wood look  forms are all one of a kind all pieces of art captured in clay,  The delicate details of a flower, seeing and scuplting facial features in a wood lok clay form, memories as a medical photographer are all capture a moment in time or a memory frozen in time. Stoneware clay, stains and glazes are is used to show the delicate details captured in clay.  Hand tools, found objects, wood and wild imagination are also used in creating the sculptural forms. Each piece is kiln fired multiple times.  Most of the artwork is designed to be hung on the wall as well as displayed on a tabletop.. 

Archival quality prints of the originals are available in print form, presented on decorative wall art tiles, mixed media and some as magnets. All of the production is completed in our studio.

Enjoy as we have the beauty of nature and days gone captured in clay, print, tile and mixed media art forms.