Julie Kiefer beside a hand-built Coiled Soul sculpture holding a living plant

Living
sculptures
with a soul

Hand-built · one of a kind

Coiled Souls Studio

Selected pieces

Julie Kiefer has spent most of her life making living art: sewing clothes for her three kids, making quilts to keep family cosy, planting an English garden in her backyard. Making has always been central to Julie's way of caring for others.

With Coiled Souls Studios, Julie hand-builds sculptures using the coiling technique, shaping each into figures that are meant to hold living plants. Many of her pieces mark something: a birth, a loss, a season of life worth remembering. The result is something that feels personal and alive, because it is.

Where figurative clay meets living plants.

Collections

Blue Heron The beautiful Blue Heron perch on the shores of the lake daily. I love watching them observe their surroundings and move with such grace. → Early Edition The quiet choreography that unfolds at first light — a family’s parallel morning rituals. → Seasons of Her Soul A narrative carved through time, tracing the path of womanhood from its quiet beginnings. → Other Works Not all pieces fit a collection, but I learn from each sculpture and these are meaningful to me. →