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The Goddess sculptures I make are of my own imagining, or re-interpretations of ancient artefacts. Where I have used an image from the past, I have endeavoured to stay true to its' original spirit, whilst also perhaps fitting it to a more modern understanding of human proportions. I like to think I am respecting and continuing a tradition, using materials unavailable to the ancients.

Prices below are for UK Sterling. For any other currencies please feel free to use the currency converter xe.com link provided on the 'How To Buy' page. Postage within the UK is 20% of the cost of the sculpture.

Neolithic Abundant Goddess from Catal Hoyuk, Turkey in Terracotta Front View.     Figurative Sculpture of a Neolithic Abundant Goddess From Catal Hoyuk Turkey with copper wash finish Front View.     Figurative Sculpture of a Neolithic Abundant Goddess From Catal Hoyuk Turkey with copper wash finish side view.

Figurative Sculptures of Dark and Light Terracotta Abundant Goddesses, from Catal Hoyuk in Turkey    Figurative Sculpture of a Black crank Abundant Goddess From Catal Hoyuk in Turkey
 Neolithic Abundant Goddess from Çatal Höyük, Turkey 6,000BC
 19cm high. Available in a range of colours and glaze textures.  £75 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability. Life- sized version coming soon, see 'Work In Progress' page.

 Found in grain storage areas and built into hearths, she represents the very beginning of human settled civilization, and the earliest agricultural Goddess.

Nile Goddess with opaque Turquoise glaze by ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.      Nile Goddess in terracotta crank with blue water decoration by South Devon sculptor Ama Menec.      Nile Goddess with crank clay and blue water decoration by ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.

Nile Goddess with Adstract purple dry watery textured glaze by sculptor Ama Menec.      Nile Goddess with sculptor Ama Menec's Thermal Imaging glaze.      Nile Goddess with weathered Bronze glaze. This has the look and feel of polished Malachite, by sculptor Ama Menec.
Neolithic Egyptian Nile Goddesses, 3,000 - 4,000BC.
Height 26cm (10¼"), available in a range of colours and glaze textures. £80 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

These Goddesses were found in graves in late Neolithic and early Bronze Age settlements in and around Naqada on the banks of the river Nile. They pre-date the pyramids from a time before Egypt was unified under the Pharaohs. The shape of these Goddesses also appears as figures painted on to pots of that time, often floating above painted boats. A life-sized 90cm High version can be found on the 'Garden Sculpture' page.
 
 Art Deco style Pegasus, (Winged Horse) wall plaque with copper wash.      Art Deco style Pegasus, (winged Horse) wall plaque in terracotta crank clay

Pegasus Wall Hanging
 35cm (14") by 35cm (14") wall hanging, weatherproof and suitable for indoor or outdoor spaces. Available in a range of colours and glaze textures.  £120 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

Medusas winged horse daughter done in an Art Deco style. A Medusa wall plaque of the same size will follow shortly.

           Bronze Age Greek Small Figurative Sculpture of a Cycladic Goddess with white lithium crystal glaze.    Bronze Age Greek Small Cycladic Goddess Figurative Sculpture with Electric Blue glaze.    Bronze Age Greek Small Figurative Sculpture of a Cycladic Goddess with Amas 'thermal imaging' glaze.

Cycladic Goddesses, Bronze Age Greek 2,000 - 3,000BC.
Height 36cm (14¼"), including base, available in a range of colours and glaze textures. £70 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.
A life-sized version can be found on the 'Garden Sculpture' page.

These Goddesses were first carved in the Cycladic islands in the Aegean, but were exported all over the Mediterranean region as far as Turkey and upper Egypt. Like the Naqada Egyptian Goddesses above, their exact role is unknown, but they were found, sometimes many at a time, in graves all around the Mediterranean. They were originally highly painted and would have been very colourful. 

Oval style Cycladic Head with Weathered Bronze glaze which has the look and feel of polished Malachite by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Oval style Cycladic Head, side view, with Weathered Bronze Glaze which has the look and feel of polished Malachite by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Bronze Glazed Oval style Cycladic Head by Devon ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.
Oval Style Cycladic Head with Turquoise glaze by ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Oval style Cycladic Head in yellow lithium glaze by ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Oval style Cycladic Head with Metalic Blue Glaze by Devon ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.

Cycladic Heads.
 Height 23cm (9¼"), available in a range of colours and glaze textures. £80 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.
A larger 73cm version is available, see 'Garden Sculpture' page.

These head shapes changed over the 2 millennia they were made, reflecting the different hair styles during that time. As each type has its own grace I have made mine available in 2 main styles. The above are the 'Oval' Style
 Bronze Glazed Shield Style Cycladic Head by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Bronze Glazed Shield Style Cycladic Head side view by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Shield style Cycladic Head with Blue Lithium Glaze by sculptor Ama Menec.
  Shield style Cycladic Goddess Head in Metalic Blue glaze by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Shield style Cycladic Goddess Head in Oyster White glaze, by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.    Shield style Cycladic Goddess Head in Weathered Bronze glaze, which looks and feels like polished malachite, by UK ceramic sculptor Ama Menec.   
And these are the 'Shield' Style. Both styles are the same height and prices, and all can be made using any of the glazes shown. 

Leaping woman wall hanging sculpture with white crystaline glaze for the body and flame red hair
    
Leaping Fat Goddess Wall Plaque
 39cm (15¼") long £70 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

Figurative Sculpture of a Blue-black Sheila-na-Gig ceramic wall plaque.        Figurative Sculpture of an 'Old style' Sheila-Na-Gig ceramic wall plaque with dark antiqued wash.        Electric Blue Sheila-na-Gig by west country artist Ama Menec.
Sheila-na-Gig Celtic Goddess
 wall plaque, based on the Kilpeck Sheila. Height 21cm (8¼"), available as either 'Antiqued style', or in a more 'Modern style' with bright colours. Weather resistant. £50 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.  

If you'd like to learn more about the medieval Sheila-na-Gigs, see the www.sheelanagig.com website, it'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about these Celtic Goddesses, including a map of England marked with dozens of Sheila-na-Gig sites.

Luna 'new moon' ceramic wall plaque with electric blue glaze.    Luna 'full moon' ceramic wall plaque with bright yellow textural glaze.    Luna 'half moon' ceramic wall plaque with blue and white lithium crystal glazes.

Luna 'full moon' ceramic wall plaque with white lithium crystal glaze.    Luna 'new moon' ceramic wall plaque with blue lithium crystal glaze.    Luna 'full moon' ceramic wall plaque with soft yellow textural glaze.
Black crank New Moon wall plaque    New Moon with Purple/Blue glaze and coils of clay.
Luna Wall Plaques
 available as New Moon, Full Moon or Half Moon, in a range of textures and colours, (check out, in close up, the electric blue glaze of the new moon on the far left). 24cm (9½") wide. Weather resistant and suitable for outdoors. £45 each plus postage or shipping.
Check availability.

Amaterasu Japanese Sun Goddess ceramic wall plaque by Ama Menec with guilding and 'thermal imaging' glaze.    Amaterasu Japanese Sun Goddess ceramic wall plaque by Ama Menec with guilded decoration.    Amaterasu Japanese Sun Goddess ceramic wall plaque by Ama Menec with guilding and red glaze.    Amaterasu Japanese Sun Goddess ceramic wall plaque by Ama Menec with guilding and lilac lithium crystal glaze.    Amaterasu Japanese Sun Goddess ceramic wall plaque by Ama Menec with guilding and pink matt glaze.
Amaterasu, Japanese Sun Goddess, Wall Plaques
 37cm (14½") wide, in a range of colours, textures and gilding. Presently for indoors only. £100 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

Emblem of Japan and one of the makers of the Japanese Islands.

wheel thrown Figurative Sculpture of a Flying Fire Goddess in teracotta with majolica decoration, by Ama Menec.    wheel thrown Figurative Sculpture of a Flying Fire Goddess in teracotta with majolica decoration front view, by Ama Menec. 
Flying Fire Goddess Chandelier
 Last of its kind. Wheel-thrown ceramic with majolica glaze, 66cm (26") long, suspended from adjustable high tensioned steel cabling. £350 plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

     White crackle glazed surfing mermaid candelabra

Surfing Mermaid Candelabra
 38cm (19") High. Available in a range of colours and glaze textures. £120 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

  Surfing hump-backed whale with mermaid and electric blue glaze ceramic sculpture by Ama Menec.     Surfing hump-backed whale with mermaid and black glaze ceramic sculpture by Ama Menec.
Surfing Humpback Whale and Mermaid
 Approximately 31cm (12¼") High. Available in a range of colours and glaze textures. £110 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

These sculptures are wearable porcelain Goddess pendants.

 Eye Goddess Pendant with small Eye Idol inset in the middle, engraving picked out in black, based on figures from Tell Brak in Syria, made in high fired porcelain by UK sculptor Ama Menec.    Eye Goddess Pendant with small Eye Idol inset in the middle, based on figures from Tell Brak in Syria, made in high fired white porcelain with different coloured cotton thong, by UK sculptor Ama Menec.    Eye Goddess Pendant, with green eyes and engraving picked out in black, based on figures from Tell Brak in Syria, made in high fired white porcelain with coloured cotton thong by UK sculptor Ama Menec.    Eye Goddess Pendant, with pupils picked out in black, based on figures from Tell Brak in Syria, made in high fired white porcelain with coloured cotton thong by UK sculptor Ama Menec.    Eye Goddess Pendant, with engraving picked out in black, based on figures from Tell Brak in Syria, made in high fired white porcelain with coloured cotton thong by UK sculptor Ama Menec.
Eye Goddesses
 High-fired Porcelain with coloured cotton thong, 5cm (2") Long. £15 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability. Let me know what colour thonging you want.

Many hundreds of small figures like these were found at Tell Brak in Syria, made in around 3,000 BC. Most were very small and seem to have been votive offerings to the Goddess Inanna. Great emphasis was placed on the eyes and the mirroring shape of the eyebrow, and both were usually coloured in with bitumen or malachite.

High-fired porcelain Lady Pendants with cotton thonging in blue, black or purple, by Ama Menec.     High-fired porcelain Lady Pendant with cotton thonging available in blue, black or purple, by Ama Menec.
Lady Pendants
High-fired Porcelain with coloured cotton thong, 6cm (2½") Long. They have a soft almost sugary feel in the hand. £15 each plus postage or shipping. Check availability.

All free-standing sculptures have my makers seal underneath and all wall plaques have my makers seal on the back. All sizes are approximate as these are hand-made sculptures, and will vary individually. All Luna wall plaques and Sheila-Na-Gigs are weather resistant and have been treated with a sealant to resist water penetration and so deter frost damage. They should not however be placed directly in water, particularly if there is any likely-hood of the water freezing, as this may damage them over time.

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Photography by Lea Phillips, Ama Menec and Bethany Love.
Last edited on 24th July 2010.