
14" x 13" x 9" ceramic and metal

16" x 7" x 8" ceramic and metal

9 1/2" x 3" x 2" ceramic and metal

8" x 3" x 3" ceramic and metal

6 1/2" x 3" x 7" ceramic and metal

15 1/2 x 5 x 8 Ceramic, Metal and Wood

9 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 Ceramic and Metal

7 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 3/4 Ceramic and Metal

6 x 2 1/2 x 3 Ceramic and Metal

17" x 4 1/2" x 2 3/4" ceramic

16" x 5" x 2 3/4" ceramic

11 1/8 x 5 1/4 x 4 3/4 ceramic, metal and wood

21 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 metal, ceramic and wood

13 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 ceramic metal and wood

13" x 8" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood

15" x 7 1/2" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood

16" x 7" x 7" ceramic, metal, wood

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

36" x 7" x 6" ceramic and steel

SOLD 5 1/4 x 2 3/" x 3 ceramic and metal

SOLD 40" x 9" x 8" reclaimed barn wood and metal

SOLD 10 x 5 x 5 1/2 Ceramic and Metal

SOLD 11 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 ceramic, metal and wood

SOLD 15 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 ceramic, metal and wood

SOLD 11 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 ceramic metal and wood

28 3/8 x 10 1/8 x 8 metal ceramic and wood SOLD

Sold 4 x 2 x 2 1/2 Ceramic and Metal

SOLD 7 1/8 x 4 1/4 x 3 7/8 ceramic and metal

SOLD 9 x 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 ceramic metal

SOLD 8 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 3 Ceramic and Metal

SOLD 33" x 9" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood

SOLD 41" x 11" x 8" ceramic, wood and metal

SOLD 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 Ceramic and Metal

SOLD 18" x 7" x 6 1/2" ceramic, metal and wood

SOLD 18" x 11" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood

SOLD 29 1/2" x 8" x 5" ceramic, metal and wood

Sold 11 1/2" x 3 1/4" x 2 1/4" ceramic

17" x 6 1/2" ceramic, metal, wood SOLD

SOLD 17" x 10" x 6" ceramic, metal, wood

SOLD 15" x 7 1/2" x 5" ceramic, metal, wood

SOLD 12 1/4" x 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" ceramic, metal, wood

SOLD 7 1/4 x 3 x 3 ceramic and metal

SOLD 14 x 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 Ceramic and Metal

14 x 10 x 3 ceramic, metal and wood SOLD

SOLD 17 3/4 x 7 x 5 5/8 Ceramic and Metal

SOLD 67" x 18" x 15" ceramic

SOLD 22" x 7" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood

SOLD 18" x 6" 1/2 x 5" 1/2 Metal Ceramic and Wood

SOLD 11" x 3" Ceramic, Metal and Wood

SOLD 70" x 16" x 12" ceramic

SOLD 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 Ceramic and Metal

SOLD 6 x 2" 1/2 x 1" Metal and Ceramic
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.