About
“Erica Devine creates pieces of art that resemble living fossils. She casts in clay plants that she grows in her Wicklow garden and finds in the wild. The pieces highlight the delicate architecture of the natural world.” Dominique McMullan, The Irish Times.
I work with plants, clay and plaster to create botanical casts and moulds from which to make a range of art and decorative objects. Poured into voids in softly yielding clay, once occupied by the curling tendrils of passion flower or the soft hairs of a poppy stem, liquid plaster sets warm to the touch. Expanding ever so slightly, it captures the most infinitesimal detail of the natural world. Plaster captures the ephemeral but is friable and delicate while presenting a solid mass - an illusion and metaphor for our own lifecycles. Transformed further into wax, resin or a myriad of other materials, a beautiful afterlife is created in the form of furniture, candles and translucencies.
