
21 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 9 ceramic metal wood

16 3/4" x 6 1/2" x 8" ceramic wood metal

24" x 14" x 3" ceramic metal wood

SOLD 15" x 6" x 11" ceramic metal wood

SOLD 10 1/2" x 4" x 6" ceramic wood metal

20" x 7" x 4 1/2" ceramic wood metal

SOLD 27" x 10" x 9" ceramic, wood and steel

9 1/4" x 7 3/4" x 6 ceramic wood metal

SOLD 28" x 7" x 14" ceramic wood metal

23" x 10" x 11" ceramic, wood and steel

44" x 14" x 8" ceramic and steel

SOLD 9" x 8" x 6" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD

12" x 6" x 4 1/2" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 40" x 9" x 9" ceramic and steel

SOLD 24" x 16" x 5" ceramic, wood and steel

12" x 11" x 7" ceramic and steel

20" x 8" x 4 1/2" ceramic, metal, wood

36" x 7" x 6" ceramic and steel

70" x 16" x 12" ceramic

67" x 18" x 15" ceramic

59" x 13" x 11" ceramic

SOLD 9" x 15" x 5" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 17" x 9" x 7" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 27" x 8" x 6" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 11 1/2" x 10" x 6" ceramic, metal, wood

SOLD 16" x 10" x 17" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 27" x 10" x 6" ceramic, wood, metal

SOLD 10" x 6" x 5" ceramic, metal, wood

SOLD 32" x 17 1/2" x 9" ceramic, wood, metal

SOLD 13" x 11" x 6" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 14" x 6" x 7" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 13" x 9" x 5" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 17" x 9" x 6" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD 16 1/2" x 8" x 8" ceramic, wood and steel

SOLD

SOLD 24" x 9" x 10" ceramic and metal

SOLD

SOLD
Robin and John Gumaelius incorporate steel, ceramic and wood to create animated human and birdlike sculptures. Robin creates all the colorful ceramic surface imagery and complex decorative glazes, and then John takes over and adds the exquisite metal armatures that bring the sculptures to life. In a highly unusual working relationship, Robin and John combine their skills and imaginations together as an artistic team to build a singularly unusual world out of clay and metal.
John says that "we begin by pressing clay into a crow-shaped mold, then cut, bend and build to alter that shape. We paint the entire figure with under-glazes then carve back through to the white clay. Watching clay peel away and images appear satisfies us; it gives immediate pleasure."
Robin continues: "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".
John and Robin Gumaelius live in a tree house John recently built for the couple and their four children. In this wooded environment, the couple works in a slow ongoing conversation with each other. Each piece records a bit of their story.