Tinka Jordy (NC, b. 1954), Two Birds Ceramic Garden Sculpture

Hillsborough, circa 2000, stoneware clay model of two birds with mottled blue and green glazes, created in two parts with central aluminum rod support anchored atop a concrete base, suitable for outdoor display.

41 1/2 x 13 x 12 in.

Private Collection, Cary, North Carolina

Purchased directly from the artist

Tinka was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and has resided in Hillsborough, North Carolina since 1988. She received a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 after attending The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Kansas City Art Institute. Tinka is currently the vice chair of the Orange County Arts Commission Advisory Board. She describes her figurative clay works as "full of surface cracks, fissures and imperfections that express the earth, the passing of time, our mortality, and the search for spirituality. I work on them until they look back at me."

Some minor chips to the base edge; and a few firing hairlines.