Some incredibly talented customers of mine built a cocktail table and inset some of my painterly tile series in it!! 😊
Little dog - Big dog
I am honored to have some if my tapestry tile designs installed as accents in this kitchen!!
One thing I love about cold, raw, wet days is the excuse to light a fire in the morning. It makes the house so cozy! The dogs love it too. 💕💕
A fireplace surround created using my painterly tiles for accents. I am honored to be featured in this family’s home.
Our shop is open until 4pm today and our sculpture trail is magical in the snow. Our road, however, is not plowed so please visit only if you have 4 wheel drive or if you are walking from a landbank trail parking.
This year’s (first batch of) gingerbread cookies are inspired by the Solstice and our Sculpture Trail. Castles, dragons, suns, moons…
Work in progress: painting with amaco underglazes on earthenware. The colors will change significantly once fired.
What a wonderful six days I had traveling from Portland Maine to Brooklyn New York to visit my children. I am replete with experiences from the quintessential Maine salvage warehouse to contemporary art shows in Manhattan - all with the joy of connecting with my kids. 💕💕💕
We have sold all of the eyes in the shop! It is past time to start a new batch. I poured a plaster mold of the original carvings that I did so that I can make multiples. I press clay into the mold, stamp them, and inset the high fire wire in the back at this stage so that a hanging wire can be strung after they are fired. After they are pried out of the mold, I trim them and clean them up and sometimes add to them.
Our shop is open today, October 10th from 11-5. 💕💕
New 4x4 dragon tiles going in the shop tomorrow. 16 Marion’s Way Chilmark MA
My husband and his dog.
Mugshot Monday - our various mugs at lunch - one for water, one for tea or coffee. Most of these are older mugs of mine. The octopus is one of Bill’s.
Still dreaming, sketching and transposing onto the rounded surface of mugs. 💕💕 the song is one of mine recorded with magically talented friends in the early 90s.
Just realized the mugs that I’m illustrating with underglazes tell a story when seen together.
A dreamy day sketching and then glazing. 💕
The kiln gods were kind! A handful of the tiles were special ordered and the rest are now in our gift shop. The shop is open 11-5 Monday-Saturday and 2-5 on Sunday. Our sculpture trail is open daily from 9am-dusk, and is free. September is a beautiful month to walk it!!
The last evening of August, Bill and I drove the 30 minutes to Oak Bluffs after dinner. We purchased ice cream and then walked out Circuit Ave extension beside the sun setting waters, looping around to the new walkway and out to the end of the fishing pier. It was beautiful. And then we saw the joyful music of Sol y canto. An altogether lovely night!
Working on some dragon tile variations
Views of life outside the studio 💕
Our Irish Wolfhound is growing up! He is almost one year old.
I have bowls! Just in time for the 4th of July weekend. We are open 11-5 Wednesday-Saturdays and 2-5 on Sundays
May the kiln gods be kind. 😊
I’m sorry to say the clear glaze on these mugs bubbled. I tried grinding down the bubbles with a dremel, touching up and re-firing several times. 🙁 I have now purchased a brand new gallon of commercial clear glaze for the next batch of mugs so hoping for more success next time.
Happy window cat.
Our shop will be opening at 2pm as opposed to 11am on Thursday, May 26. Our Sculpture Trail will be open 9am-dusk.
These two tiles were modeled on Rebecca Miller and Mathew Dix, the owners of North Tabor Farm @northtaborfarm I created the prototypes 30 years ago. They are still working the farm today.
On my evening walk, I cut home along this bucolic walking trail. The light was magical.
Works in progress! Earthenware mugs with underglaze painting on them. I’m having lots of fun in the studio this week.
Tiles and mugs. Works in progress. 😊
Our shop at 16 Marion’s Way in Chilmark is open 11-4pm Wed- Saturday this week and 2-4 on Sunday the 24th of April. Our sculpture trail is now open daily from 9-5.
A glimpse of brightness on a grey day.
More tiles fresh from the kiln. Each tile has a wire hanger on the back. Our shop is open anytime by appointment in April. Our shop hours resume May 1st. #marthasvineyardartist
I unloaded a glaze kiln today. 😊
I finished tiling my kitchen sink backsplash and window sill today - and I baked some bread. 😊
Most of the tiles are mine, but I did tuck in 5 by Argus Brugge. I love their work and I really like it combined with my painterly tile designs.