R & J Gumaelius
10 x 5 x 5 1/2 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
Sold 4 x 2 x 2 1/2 Ceramic and Metal
7 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 3/4 Ceramic and Metal
8 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 3 Ceramic and Metal
8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 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
Sold 11 1/2" x 3 1/4" x 2 1/4" 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
14 x 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 Ceramic and Metal
SOLD 17 3/4 x 7 x 5 5/8 Ceramic and Metal
13" x 8" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood
15" x 7 1/2" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood
22" x 7" 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
SOLD 70" x 16" x 12" ceramic
36" x 7" x 6" ceramic and steel
24" x 14" x 3" ceramic metal wood
SOLD 5 1/4 x 2 3/" x 3 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 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 33" x 9" x 6" ceramic, metal and wood
SOLD 41" x 11" x 8" ceramic, wood 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
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
14 x 10 x 3 ceramic, metal and wood SOLD
SOLD 67" x 18" x 15" 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.
