

It is all in the nipple.....
My challenge this morning was to finish a very large A0 charcoal study that I have been working on. I really wanted to push this study so that the boundaries of feminine and masculine blurred, leaving questions in the mind of the viewer. Is it a drawing of a male, female, other? Some physical elements of the human body within drawing or sculpture are more easily gender transferable. For instance, often when I sculpt female legs and thighs I choose to sculpt those with a


Feet of Clay!
Well it is that time. I bravely take my first steps forward and write my first ever blog! To introduce myself, I am Hayley-Jay Daniels and I am a ceramic sculptress. I was born and educated in the UK, but I have lived and worked as a sculptress in the South West of France for the last seven years. My artworks explore notions of identity and fragmentation, taking inpiration from both the historic and the contemporary. So here I am, tentative steps into blogging. I am sure I