06/01/2026
We are so thrilled to welcome four wonderful artists to our front gallery this June! Don't miss hob-nobbing with the artists in attendance this Friday, June 5th from 5-7pm. Denise Krueger Botanic Art , Natasha Ramras Art , Joanne Licardo and Tamara A Goldsmith
✨We will be featuring each of them this week with in-depth looks at the artists and their art.
First up today is all about Denise Krueger!
🐚 As a pod maker, Denise faces many challenges, like having to explain these things that she is compelled to create and describe to others what to do with them. The pod idea grew years ago from a class at her local ceramic supplier, Georgies, where she was taught how to make a hollow, round form from two pinched pots, and she’s been trying to figure out new ways to reinvent these forms ever since. The pod form continues to fascinate her, and she wakes up in the morning with fresh ideas for new pod life.
She stretches the functionality of the pod until it becomes more art than form. The jars and vases seem useful, but the outcome is usually more decorative than functional. Made to be suitable as garden stakes, rattles, and sculptural wall objects, Denise sculpts and paints to express her vivid, colorful dreams, mainly about plants, sea creatures, and cellular forms.
More of her work can be found on Instagram and on her Etsy: dkruegerbotanicart
