{"id":4568,"date":"2013-02-27T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:33","slug":"valerie-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/valerie-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Valerie Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4569\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/valerie-hammond\/drawing1-valeriehammond\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a92010 AndyWainwright.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"drawing1-valeriehammond\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4569\" alt=\"drawing1-valeriehammond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing1-valeriehammond-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The work of <a href=\"http:\/\/valeriehammond.com\" target=\"_blank\">Valerie Hammond<\/a> is so delicate and lovely and shrouded in mystery. I especially love her sculpture work, it reminds me so much of the earlier sculpture work of artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petahcoyne.org\/earliersculpture.html\" target=\"_blank\">Petah Coyne<\/a>. Valerie draws from her great fascination and mystery of ancient religious visuals from Tibetan medical drawings to Buddhist sculptures; working across various mediums from painting to printmaking to photography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4570\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/valerie-hammond\/drawing2-valeriehammond\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,449\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a92010 AndyWainwright.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"drawing2-valeriehammond\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4570\" alt=\"drawing2-valeriehammond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/drawing2-valeriehammond-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/valerie-hammond\/prints-valeriehammond\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"815,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"prints-valeriehammond\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond-300x220.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4571\" alt=\"prints-valeriehammond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond.jpg\" width=\"652\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/prints-valeriehammond-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/valerie-hammond\/valeriehammond\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"779,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"valeriehammond\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond-300x231.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4572\" alt=\"valeriehammond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond.jpg\" width=\"631\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/valeriehammond-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Valerie Hammond is so delicate and lovely and shrouded in mystery. I especially love her sculpture work, it reminds me so much of the earlier sculpture work of artist Petah Coyne. Valerie draws from her great fascination and mystery of ancient religious visuals from Tibetan medical drawings to Buddhist sculptures; working across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,155,405,102],"tags":[37,125,1874,24,1870,742,743],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-drawing","category-printmaking","category-sculpture","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-drawing","tag-print","tag-sculpture","tag-valerie-hammond","tag-wax-drawing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1bG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4274,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/sabine-finkenauer\/","url_meta":{"origin":4568,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Sabine Finkenauer","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sabine Finkenauer's artistic talents spread across several mediums from sculptural work with wrought iron and wood to drawing, painting and collage work. 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