Artist's Statement:
Tyree has drawn inspiration for her work from the world around her throughout her career as a visual artist. From painting bucolic farm scenes and animals to sculpting woodland creatures, she has made a large variety of things for a large variety of people
over the years.

However, in the last two years, she has found a home with ceramic
sculpture. Tyree creates figures in clay and has cultivated her own style of slip application to create texture while using her painting background for a variety of surface treatments.

Tyree deftly combines skills and materials across mediums to create stories
with her whimsical sculptures. Inspiration might spark from a found object or some personal tale. Regardless, the feelings Tyree portrays are universal: humor, joy, curiosity, loneliness, love.

Tyree’s work invokes a feeling of kinship in her viewers: they
are part of her world and she is a part of theirs.