{"id":429,"date":"2021-03-17T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/?page_id=429"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:39:09","slug":"sigruns-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/?page_id=429","title":{"rendered":"Sigrun&#8217;s Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\"><strong>Hello <strong>I\u2019m Sigrun Hukill<\/strong><em>!<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-597\" style=\"width: 220px; height: 331px;\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sigruns-Bio-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sigruns-Bio-Pic.jpg 399w, https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sigruns-Bio-Pic-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>&#8220;My Medium is Clay&#8230;..The Language is Love&#8221;<\/strong><br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Born into an artist family<\/strong> and growing up in postwar Munich Germany, my life was surrounded <br>by art from the start.<br> <strong>Nevertheless<\/strong> I needed to learn that even my many many travels, either to Europe\u2019s vibrant cities, <br>or across the Atlantic to the American continent, or to the hidden islands of the Pacific didn\u2019t help me find the slumbering Artist within.<br> <strong>It was not until<\/strong> I met my wonderful husband Jeff Hukill, a great artist and painter, who\u2019s steady encouragement inspired me to enroll and take a sculpture class. There I found<strong> I LOVED CLAY<\/strong> and immediately it became my medium.&nbsp;It was like a divine hand had struck a match and ignited the flame, and now the fire of being an artist is burning brightly in my heart.<br> <strong>I was so fortunate<\/strong> to study under the knowledgeable sculptor Carol Cook, and to this day under the generous guidance of my beloved Professor Marty Ray at Northlake College in Irving, Texas where <br>I received the <em>Best of Show <\/em>award at the 2010 Student Show for <br><em><strong>Woman Bather 1<\/strong><\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woman-Bather_1-1.jpg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/?attachment_id=566\">Click to View)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello I\u2019m Sigrun Hukill! &#8220;My Medium is Clay&#8230;..The Language is Love&#8221; Born into an artist family and growing up in postwar Munich Germany, my life was surrounded by art from the start. Nevertheless I needed to learn that even my many many travels, either to Europe\u2019s vibrant cities, or across the Atlantic to the American<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/?page_id=429\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-429","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PhhfRY-6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhukillart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}