Ceramic Animals Help Keep Your Favorite Plants Happy

Artist Bird Can Fox, aka Liz Davies, has a sim­ple for­mu­la for cre­at­ing her illus­trat­ed ceram­ics. “Ceram­ics + illus­tra­tion x col­or + pat­tern,” she declares. Her crea­ture char­ac­ters fol­low this idea, being both func­tion­al and charm­ing in their sur­face dec­o­ra­tion. The likes of lions, bears, and lla­ma are adorned with abstract pat­tern­ing and gold accents, and some even car­ry tiny pots on their back to dou­ble as planters.

They tend to be a lit­tle wonky in their forms; Liz says that she loves “squidg­ing clay,” and her ani­mal ceram­ics cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful vari­a­tion that comes from work­ing by hand.

Liz sells her work in the Bird Can Fox Etsy shop. She’s announced, on her Insta­gram, that there’s a store update on Sat­ur­day, August 18, so get ready!