Neon-Cat Devon Rex

From time-to-time Neon-Cat Ceramics presents representational works of ceramic sculpture available for purchase. Often featured are large and small ceramic clay sculptures of Devon Rex cats and other animals.  

Feel free to contact Marian at neoncat@flash.net for more information.

Artist’s Statement

I’ve done many things in life that now help to enliven and contribute to my ceramic artwork. As a new ceramic artist (I hadn’t even thought about clay or art before the summer of 2007) I hope to become skilled enough to properly unwrap all the visions and gifts inherent in the medium of clay. Since 1989 I have bred cats, first Siamese and now Devon Rex. The kitties continue to bring me much pleasure with their exuberant spontaneity and zest for life and in return I’ve written numerous articles for and about cats for the cat fancy in the areas of breeding and feline toxicology. In the lively 60’s and 70’s I was a performer and student of the French Horn (Eastman School of Music, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria, etc.). Later I was a licensed commercial real estate agent in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. but left that arena to work happily in and on buildings as a licensed electrician, steam boiler operator, maintenance mechanic, welder, and plumber and finally as chief maintenance engineer for both office and apartment buildings. In 1991 I went back to college and received a B.S. in chemistry from Texas Wesleyan University (1993) and then completed some graduate work in chemistry at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas before Lyme Disease got the better of me. I suffered with Lyme Disease for 16 ½ years as a series of medical mistakes failed to diagnose the problem and then utterly failed to cure the disease much less repair all the complications caused by the long-term continuation of this debilitating illness. In the winter of 2006 I had a complete and instantaneous healing of Lyme Disease through the efforts of a marvelous and dedicated Teacher and Practitioner of Christian Science. Since that time I have left ten years of reclusiveness and pain behind and in perfect freedom and joy I am learning once again to participate in all that life has to offer. It’s truly one grand adventure!

Marian Gooding

December 2007

Catenary Cat - bisque-fired; cold carnauba wax with oxides and clay patina. 

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Wall Mounted leaping Devon Rex youth

19 ¼” L X 11” H X 3 ½” W

White Stoneware with Red Stoneware underglaze slip; Orange Carbon Trap Shino Glaze; Cone 6 Reduction

"Leo" - 7 ¼” L X 6 ½” H X 2” W

"Little Buster" & "Brock"

Made from a ceramic clay body composed of Tidy Cat cat litter and Feline Pine; bisque-fired; unglazed.

Each kitty is approximately

5 ½” L X 5 ½” H X 2” W

Wall Mounted Devon Rex 

This kitty was made from a clay body composed of a 25% Feline Pine (sawdust) and 75% Tidy Cat cat litter.

17” L X 7” H X 2 ¾” W; 567 grams

Tidy Cat cat litter slip; Cone 6 Reduction

Wall Mounted Devon Rex

White Stoneware with Red Stoneware slip, Cone 6 Reduction

Wall Mounted Devon Rex front view

"The Cat's in the Bag!"

White stoneware; cat has Shino glaze and others; the bag is unglazed; both were fired at Cone 6 Reduction

Devon 8” L X 4 ¼” H X 3"W

Bag 10” L X 6” H X 6 ½” W         

Phoenix Rising from the Ashes (paperclay greenware)

Phoenix Rising from the Ashes

(bisqued & antiqued paperclay, 20% paper by wet weight; 50% paper by wet volume)

Phoenix Rising from the Ashes

18 ¼” high X 10 ¼” wide X 10 ¾” long

(glaze fired; Cone 6 Reduction)

Tidy Cat cat litter kitties (bisque-fired)

Tidy Cat cat litter kitties after Cone 6 reduction glaze firing (glazes: Orange Carbon Trap Shino and Clear Gloss)

Opps! Three kitties and two testers got melted. Now they're part of an interesting wall hanging complete with their magnetic, metallic glaze.

Whimsical Devons

low-fire white with glaze

approximately 3" L X 3" H X 2" W 

Curious George

Low-fire white with glaze

3 3/4” L  X 2 1/2” H X 3/4” W

Arched Devon – bisque-fired

White Stoneware

10” L X 6” H X 3 ½” W

Laughing Devon Rex

First Ever Clay Piece, August 2007

Low-fire white with Amber glaze 

3 5/16” L X 5 ½ “ H X 4 ½” W

"The Sentinel", 10 3/4" H X 2 5/8" W X 3 1/4" L, terra cotta with 35% sawdust (Feline Pine Cat Litter), greenware.

The Sentinel; bisque fired; cold carnauba wax with oxides and clay patina.