Maria Villegas-Heaney
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Beautiful Botanicals
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I have the pleasure of preserving my garden’s gifts through plaster relief artwork. Every piece is one-of-a-kind and captures the elegance, fine details, and whimsy of flowers, buds, and vegetables.
I fall in love with the process of creating each and every day taking my hands from sun-warmed soil to rolling clay, peeling petals, pouring plaster, painting, and then back again. Over the past few years, I have explored different types of clay, plaster, and painting techniques that have brought me to the art I share today.
My hope is that my artwork ignites a curiosity amongst its viewers that helps us all commemorate the natural beauty that surrounds us.