Blue Heron Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 20" Click image to enlarge $1,500.00

Small Speckle In Green Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 8" Click image to enlarge $200.00

Purple Speckles With Jade And Tiger's Eye Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 10" Click image to enlarge $225.00

Little Red Asian Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 8" Click image to enlarge $250.00

Small Blue Speckle Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 5" Click image to enlarge $250.00

Blue Speckle With Jade Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $250.00

Blue Speckle With Lapis Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $250.00

Red Speckle Bamboo Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $250.00

Small Speckle With Purple Heishi Inlay Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $275.00

Small Red Speckle With Coral Inlay Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 5" Click image to enlarge $300.00

Snake Skin With Turquoise Inlay Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 10" Click image to enlarge $300.00

Ginkgo With Turquoise Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $500.00

Green Speckle Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 5" Click image to enlarge $600.00

Red Copper And Turquoise Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 5" Click image to enlarge $600.00

Pine Needle Coil Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $800.00

Dragonfly With Lapis Blue Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 7" Click image to enlarge $800.00

Maple Leaves With Lapis Inlay Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 9" Click image to enlarge $800.00

Copper Dragonflies With Tiger Eye Knob Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 7" Click image to enlarge $800.00

Three Morpho Butterflies Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 7" Click image to enlarge $800.00

Ammonite And African Jade Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 14" Click image to enlarge $950.00

Large Koi With Bell Top Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 12" Click image to enlarge $1,300.00

Koi With Open Top Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 12" Click image to enlarge $1,300.00

Blue Pine Needle Coil Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 13" Click image to enlarge $1,400.00

Dragonflies With Ammonite Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 17" Click image to enlarge $1,400.00

Butterfly Koi With Turquoise Inlay - SOLD Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 6" Click image to enlarge $700.00

Large Brazilian Butterflies With Lapis Inlay - SOLD Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 14" Click image to enlarge $1,500.00

Red Asian Coil With Jade - SOLD Hand Carved and Painted Gourd Height 7" Click image to enlarge $775.00

Claudia Pflueger

     Claudia Pflueger is an accomplished Fine Artist, schooled at the American Academy of Art in Chicago in graphic, and fine art.  She presently resides in upstate New York, where she has her home studio and gallery.

     "Having come from the midwest, where I primarily worked in the commercial art industry, I hadn't ever experienced the beautiful colors of Fall, found in the Hudson Valley."  She found herself inspired by her surroundings to once again focus her talents on the Fine Arts.  "My introduction to gourds as an art form was merely by chance; but having said that, I found them to be the perfect canvas, each unique, with their flowing lines, and subtle curves; clearly, Natures' perfect sculpture."

     Each of Claudia's gourds are individually handcrafted by the artist, using a combination of colored dyes and gilding pastes; most of the images are created using pyrography (wood burning technique); while others are ornately carved; or embellished with hand crafted pine needle coiling.  Finally, each are finished, by adorning them in materials such as turquoise, carved jade, or other semiprecious stones.  Each piece is truly a work art, and no two pieces are exactly alike.

Robert Paul Galleries is pleased to be chosen to show the works of American artist Claudia Pflueger.