Giving Form to Feeling
Sculpting Emotions
Cheryl-Ann Webster’s Sculpting Emotions is an ongoing practice.
A way of shaping internal experience through material form — adding, subtracting, refining, and revealing.
Clay becomes a place where pressure, movement, fracture, and repair are made visible.
Each piece holds a moment of experience, translated into structure, surface, and form.
Below is a selection of work — where form, surface, and feeling meet.
The Artist
Cheryl-Ann Webster is a Vancouver Island–based clay sculptor and Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT).
Her work explores resilience, vulnerability, and the emotional architecture of lived experience. Through sculptural vessels and layered surfaces, she brings internal experience into material form.
After concluding her role as Executive Director of the Canadian International Institute for Art Therapy (CiiAT) in 2025, she returned fully to her studio practice — creating work that reflects a more personal, embodied exploration of emotion and meaning.
The Process
Each piece begins with a moment — a feeling, a memory, or a question.
Through coil-throwing, handbuilding, and sculpting, the work unfolds through building, marking, and refining. The process is both intuitive and deliberate — a dialogue between material and experience.
Clay becomes a place where pressure, movement, fracture, and repair are made visible.
What emerges is not simply form, but a trace of experience.