Ceramic nude woman sculpture-vase adorned with native flora and fauna—wild, symbolic, and unashamed.
Ceramic nude woman sculpture-vase adorned with native flora and fauna—wild, symbolic, and unashamed.
Ceramic nude woman sculpture-vase adorned with native flora and fauna—wild, symbolic, and unashamed.
Ceramic nude woman sculpture-vase adorned with native flora and fauna—wild, symbolic, and unashamed.
Ceramic nude woman sculpture-vase adorned with native flora and fauna—wild, symbolic, and unashamed.
Ceramic nude woman sculpture-vase adorned with native flora and fauna—wild, symbolic, and unashamed.

Virginia The May Queen – Maggie Belinski

$2,222.00

Virginia The May Queen is a ceramic sculpture and vessel honoring women and nature. Created for Skyclad, a summer solstice exhibition honoring the power of nude female bodies, this ceramic sculpture embodies femininity not as something to be tamed or adorned for others, but as something elemental.

Built from slabs and coils of red and white clay, she sits cross-legged and bare, reclining to bask in the sun. Sculpted flora and fauna native to Virginia wind around her body as if she belongs there; she is one with nature. Each plant and animal she wears is chosen for its symbolism: transformation, protection, abundance, and resilience. A swallowtail rests on her shoulder, a garter snake curls around her leg, strawberries and nettles bloom beside other wildflowers and bugs. 

Without a face, she becomes every woman and no one at once: an altar to women burned, silenced, or forgotten, and the wild ones who survived anyway. She is not just a sculpture, but a living offering: a vase that will hold shifting bouquets throughout the exhibition, evolving like the solstice season she represents.

This sculpture is a reclamation of softness as strength, of nudity as unashamed, and of womanhood as something sacred, abundant, and untamed. 

Dimensions: 16” x 15” x 17”
Materials: ceramic stoneware, glaze
Year: 2025

Virginia The May Queen is a ceramic sculpture and vessel honoring women and nature. Created for Skyclad, a summer solstice exhibition honoring the power of nude female bodies, this ceramic sculpture embodies femininity not as something to be tamed or adorned for others, but as something elemental.

Built from slabs and coils of red and white clay, she sits cross-legged and bare, reclining to bask in the sun. Sculpted flora and fauna native to Virginia wind around her body as if she belongs there; she is one with nature. Each plant and animal she wears is chosen for its symbolism: transformation, protection, abundance, and resilience. A swallowtail rests on her shoulder, a garter snake curls around her leg, strawberries and nettles bloom beside other wildflowers and bugs. 

Without a face, she becomes every woman and no one at once: an altar to women burned, silenced, or forgotten, and the wild ones who survived anyway. She is not just a sculpture, but a living offering: a vase that will hold shifting bouquets throughout the exhibition, evolving like the solstice season she represents.

This sculpture is a reclamation of softness as strength, of nudity as unashamed, and of womanhood as something sacred, abundant, and untamed. 

Dimensions: 16” x 15” x 17”
Materials: ceramic stoneware, glaze
Year: 2025

Wading In The Waterlilies – Maggie Belinski
Wading In The Waterlilies – Maggie Belinski
$111.00

Maggie Belinski – Ceramic Artist & Painter

I am a ceramic artist and painter living in Richmond, VA, and a recent Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts graduate. I work in many media, including oils, acrylics, clay, and textiles. I enjoy making things that can be used and/or appreciated in everyday life. My work focuses on death and rebirth to show that death is the natural progression of the life cycle that allows us to appreciate life more. I often use mushrooms as a symbol of rebirth from something that has died. I have also begun exploring feminism through the lens of witchcraft, as the term witch was originally a negative term to villainize women, but has been reclaimed by women to show how powerful women are. 

When I started my spiritual journey into witchcraft, my art style transformed. In Witch culture, there is an appreciation for nature and the cycles within it, which is what drew me in. I began to address ideas about the life cycle, death and rebirth, the modern witch, and feminism. Through my work, I focus on death to try to spin the view that I have on it from a fearful and negative thing; when in reality it is the natural and beautiful progression of the life cycle.

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