Creative Gardeners

It never ceases to amaze me how crafty the Master Gardeners are.  They do all sorts of things outside of gardening-quilting, felting, small engines, weaving, professional clowning-you name it! 

One of our Master Gardeners was an art teacher in her non-retired life, no big surprise there.  For a while now, she's been holding ceramic classes for the Master Gardeners.  She started out with simple gardening wall plaques with a little pocket to hold plants in.  However, over time, the pieces created by the Master Gardeners have morphed into all sorts of elaborate ceramic works of art.  There are masks, plaques, flowers, fish-to name a few. Most of the artwork is for the garden.

Here are some of the items that have been created:

Al M's three-piece plaque. (photos by Karen Norton)

Dottie's masks.

Varied sunflowers and fun, little snakes.

My dahlia, which started out as a sunflower, but morphed.

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