Jane DeDecker

With careful attention to intent, DeDecker manipulates clay with painterly brush marks. Under her hands, there is a fluidity that echoes the human form and concepts emerge from memories and observations of life.

Jonah held captive reflects our own vulnerabilities. A family rising with the dawn becomes a spiritual awakening. A woman worn thin by her burdens opens the possibility of a lightness of being. A man managing a wheelbarrow reminds us of the steadfast patience to balance life’s abundance.

DeDecker became a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society in 2007. She has placed over 175 life and monumental sized public sculptures in over thirty-three states. Her work is not static, nor is it a finished thought, but rather tied to a moment in time and place that reflects the unfinished story that is our humanity. The permanence of her sculptures cast in bronze drives her to respect the message she leaves behind – positive affirmations about life and living.