Meticulously Patterned Folkloric Pottery by Sue Tirrell

Ceram­ic artist Sue Tir­rell describes her works as “folk­loric pot­tery and sculp­ture with a mod­ern sen­si­bil­i­ty.” And that they are. The scal­loped-edged plates fea­ture detailed, black and white draw­ings of dif­fer­ent ani­mals like birds, snakes, wolves, and rab­bits. Behind them are bright­ly-col­ored flo­ral pat­terns that are a nice jux­ta­po­si­tion to the visu­al­ly heavy fore­ground crea­tures. When you view all of the plates togeth­er, they cre­ate an intrigu­ing series with a loose nar­ra­tive thread. I think you could eas­i­ly arrange them into dif­fer­ent stories.