Elizabeth Orchard

My humble beginnings were working with — and snacking on — PlayDoh, but 10,000+ hours later, I'm enamored with English Porcelain and its iron-rich, super-messy-to-work-with cousin, terra cotta.

I studied architecture as both an undergrad and grad student and worked in high fashion in New York City and much lower fashion in San Francisco — a life of rarified stimuli and visual wonder collided. My hands and eyes are trained to see and to notice, to draw and to create.

Now I am focused on art that sprouts from dirt: the botanical. Hence, the dirt I use to build is adorned with and enlivened by flowers. Light and shadow reveal form. Less is (almost always) more but sometimes a bore; restraint meets indulgence.