A Passion for Clay: Villa Gardens Dedicates Resident-Created Sculpture – ‘Variations’
"Once I put my hands in the clay and got it under my fingernails I was a goner," laughed artist and Villa Gardens resident Joyce Newman about her first introduction to sculpting. "I was hooked. Since then, sculpting in clay has been my fascination for 60 years." Although she has a doctorate in biochemistry and worked in that field briefly, Joyce's passion in life and her career has been art, specifically sculpting, although she also dabbles in watercolor. She had to decide between her lo…