Combining the playful with the bizarre, Penny Min Ferguson of the label Min Pin crafts ceramics that are both useful and decorative. They revolve around creatures that might ordinarily be menacing but are softened thanks to Penny’s illustration style. Leopards,…
Animals can be helpful in your everyday life… even if they’re inanimate. Australian ceramicist Susan Simonini crafts small animal vessels resembling bears, bunnies, koalas, and more to hold small items and keep your jewelry organized.
Artist Elise Lefebvre combines the exacting edges of ceramics with a surface treatment akin to watercolor. Her chunky forms, featuring portraits of animals and people, are expressed with carefree fluidity you’d find in painting. They have diffused edges of colors that…
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.…
It’s the final stop on my unofficial “Instagram tour” that highlights some of my favorite feeds worth your follow. So far, I’ve highlighted paper artists, illustrators, embroidery artists, and sketchbooks that are inspire me—and others—with their incredible artistry. Last but not least,…
My love for planters is well documented on Brown Paper Bag. And on Instagram, too—one of the happiest areas of my apartment features a couple of thriving succulents in creature-shaped pots. Emma Jo Alford of Minty Mountain continues this trend with her dazzling animal…