Art by Medium: Clay

Pablo Picasso, Speckled Black Face, 1948 A.R. 49, is a beautiful and early example from Picasso’s groundbreaking ceramic collaboration with the renowned Madoura Pottery in Vallauris,...

Brian Russell Jobe (American, b. 1981) is an artist and non-profit director based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Jobe's studio practice is focused on sculptur...

Sara Fine-Wilson's "Tousle" is a gestural 13 x 10 x 8.5 inch ceramic sculpture in white and cream with accents of grey and blue. It is constructed out of white stoneware with porcelain...

Modeling clay and enamel sculptural relief on fir wood that transposes runaway thought into a looping painted ribbon. This modeled sculptural relief, executed in modeling clay and e...

Honor your inner superstar with a unique porcelain ceramic artwork from Katharine Morling's newest series, "The Paparazzi Collection". This sculpture titled "Camera with Double Lens" is handcrafted and especially designed in the artist's signature monotone black & white style by award winning ceramicist Katharine Morling. Morling's ceramic sculptures have been shown internationally at Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Liberty’s London, Miami, Italy, Kuwait, Algiers, Germany and France. She has also had solo exhibitions in Sweden, The Netherlands and throughout the UK. In 2019, Katharine Morling’s work was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It was the fifth time that Katharine Morling has exhibited in the Summer Exhibition and “Cut”, an over-sized chainsaw is the largest piece which Morling has shown to date. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2009, she was awarded first prize at the 2010 World Crafts Council Triennial in Belgium. Morling also represented the UK at the 2010 European Ceramic Context in Denmark. For COLLECT 2011, she showed a new installation Out of the House in the Project Space of the Saatchi Gallery. Other projects include created a large wall mounted installation for the new children’s ward commissioned by the Royal London Hospital...

Decorative pottery, mimicking barnacles. Surface has a nice texture and color.

Modeling-clay relief on a repurposed ping-pong racket where a luminous chroma spot animates a restrained, tactile surface. Scintilla is a concise mixed-media relief that foregrounds ...

"Ottanio" is a mesmerizing piece from Elizabeth Art Candy’s latest series, inspired by the evocative power of sweet memories. This contemporary wall sculpture mimics the texture of m...

This masterwork is currently on display at the Zimmerman Gallery in Carmel, CA Please note: The base is not included. We will guide you through a simple installation process for out...

Painter and sculpture Artist Natalie Krainin creates artworks using the innovative method of Fabric Texture Art. This technique, which resonates deeply with her professional roots, a...

Title : Coffee Jar Materials : Terracotta, slips, terra sigillata, glaze Date : 2017 Dimensions : 6x7.5x7.5 Description : Wheel thrown and altered, terracot...

Hexagonal pink clay wall sculpture in hand molded ceramic relief designed as a modular wall installation. This sculptural wall piece is constructed from hand molded natural clay, lo...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. The works are developed through a historically informed, proprietary material pra...

A fabulous and rare large 19th century Bombay Pottery Charger from the J J School of Art, depicting scenes of Buddha from the Ajanta caves. Bombay Scho...

Textural lunar relief in self-hardening paste and acrylic on fir wood, a circular wall sculpture that foregrounds moon imagery and sculpted crater topography. This mixed-media wall s...

Cheek to Cheek 2 by John Born Stoneware clay, terra sigillata, black wash John Born's work primarily involves creating functional and sculptural ceramics. His pieces often reflect t...

Originally from the Northwest with a B.A. from Stanford University, I have painted, published illuminated books, and lived and traveled extensively in Asia. Now working primarily in ceramics, I draw images from the deep well of past experience, always starting from a strong “mind’s eye” vision...

THE SAME is a mixed media wall sculpture by Vera Vizzi that renders the lunar surface as both stage and symbol. Modeled in clay and acrylic on a 30 cm Ø fir wood disc, the piece pres...

white stoneware, with slip decoration b. 1929 – d. 2014 Don Reitz referred to his medium of choice as “dirt.” Simply put, clay is dirt or earth, and “burnt earth” is pottery. He ...

L’Ordine delle Onde (The Order of the Waves) is a textural sculpture by Vera Vizzi, part of her ongoing exploration of contemporary coastal art. Crafted from foam clay, acrylic, plas...

Snowy bands of foam clay unfold like a winter landscape in this tactile relief, where confectionery discs and miniature pill-like figures puncture the porous white field. Executed as...

Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...

The easy to live with brown and blue color theme delights the more conservative eye. The scrafitto carving and textures create liveliness to the shapes including the playful little c...

Jim Rattenbury’s work is of our time, yet it is filled with signs from other eras, both distant pasts and distant futures. He creates marks on his works that are accessible to childr...

Avalanche moon relief in foam clay and acrylic, white palette with pill-like figurines, stages a snowlike flood that links natural avalanche imagery to mental and psychiatric metapho...

Ak Jansen was born in Dongen, The Netherlands, in 1988. He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven focusing on textile design, material culture, and techniques of fabrication. He wor...

Apple topper totem delights the viewer in royal blue with strong color accents. The colums are carved in great detail, yet simplicity prevails. The apple finalizes the design with ir...

Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...

Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...

This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Dive into the whimsical realm of mystique with this utterly enchanting totem. Crafted with meticulous detail, this...

"Keys to My Heart" by Katharine Morling – Black and white porcelain sculpture of pop art surreal key chain with six handmade keys, charms and a locket. Delicate yet bold, "Keys to M...

Freedom is a contemporary porcelain sculpture by Katharine Morling, featuring a dynamic flight of hand-sculpted butterflies emerging from an open book. Executed in fine white porcela...

Large contemporary candy mosaic wall sculpture composed of hand modeled clay elements arranged in a dense three-dimensional bubble relief panel. This sculptural wall work develops a...

Robin has worked with clay since the age of eleven. Her sculptures have ranged in size from life sized sculptures to the diminutive porcelain pieces. She has been a resident artist a...

Porcelain shards on wood set in a round. Gold lustre applied the central area. Julie Massie has always taken inspiration for her artwork is from the Dorset Coastline which is a beaut...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. Original artwork From the ongoing Umbrella series This work explores the tens...

Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...

Round red lips clay mosaic wall sculpture in high relief with hand molded and fired ceramic elements. This circular wall relief reinterprets the lips motif through a dense aggregatio...

In the ceramic work Joie de Vivre (Joy of Living), Picasso employs the simple decorative motifs characteristic of his ceramics, creating a striking monochromatic piece. Using simple ...

Albrecht was half way through his MFA program (ceramics) at the University of Iowa when he was deployed to Iraq (03-04 medic/security work). His work explores the collision of war m...

Tutto is a surrealist mixed media sculpture by Vera Vizzi, hand-formed into a lunar sphere with oceanic inlays. Crafted on a 15 cm wood sphere, its cratered white surface evokes the ...

Hand built with slabs using Laguna Clay EM347 white ware with grog and bisque fired to cone 06. Then fired to cone 06 with low fire underglazes and glazes.

Anneke Bogardus "Moon Face №3" 2022 Entirely hand sculpted. Raku fired. 51.5” around, 16.5” Long, 16” Wide, 6 1/2” Off the wall Raku firing is an ancient Japanese ceramics techniq...

Barn Owl is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 75 × 52 × 60 cm (29.5 × 20.4 × 23.6 in). Thi...

Painter and sculpture Artist Natalie Krainin creates artworks using the innovative method of Fabric Texture Art. This technique, which resonates deeply with her professional roots, a...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...

Rachel Denny's work is an exploration of the seductive beauty of our natural world and the imprint that human intervention has made on its flora and fauna...

Hexagonal lilac grey clay wall sculpture in hand molded ceramic relief designed for modular panel installation. This wall-mounted clay sculpture is constructed from hand molded natural clay, low-temperature fired and spray-finished in a muted lilac grey tone. The surface develops through intertwined tubular strands compressed into a compact hexagonal format, generating a dense ceramic relief defined by repetition and controlled accumulation. The lilac grey coloration introduces a cooler chromatic register compared to the yellow counterpart in the series. Rather than relying on saturation, the piece articulates depth through shadow and subtle tonal variation. The braided clay elements create a continuous tactile structure, where light interacts with the relief to produce shifting gradients across the surface. The hexagonal support establishes a geometric boundary that contrasts with the organic curvature of the clay forms. This tension between containment and expansion is central to the work’s spatial presence. The sculpture functions independently as a clay wall relief...

Painter and sculpture Artist Natalie Krainin creates artworks using the innovative method of Fabric Texture Art. This technique, which resonates deeply with her professional roots, a...

Random is a unique fired clay constructed, painted and mounted on MDF sculpture by contemporary artist Patricia Volk, dimensions are 98 × 21 × 21 cm (38.6 × 8.3 × 8.3 in). The sculp...

A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 3. A sweeping blue back and a orange belly make up the...

Sara Fine-Wilsons ”Halo” is a gestural 15 x 12 x 9 inch ceramic sculpture in pale yellow and cream with accents of warm sepia, grey and quiet tinges of pink. In this graceful and evo...

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Abstract Organic Form, Glazed Ceramic Sculpture, Pink, Floral Shape, Japanese Aya Mori was born in Aichi Prefecture in Japan in 1989, and lives and work in Aichi. She studied at Aic...

A unique large-scale work from the ongoing Umbrella series. The figure appears suspended between presence and dissolution, as dripping layers evoke the quiet persistence of rain. T...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...

A Chinese, Sancai glazed pottery earth spirit. Tang Dynasty.

Artist Commentary: Black stoneware; cone 5/6 oxidation firing; Slips and Oxides Keywords: abstract, textured, ceramic, expressive Artist Biography: Beverly Morrison (Los Angeles...

Created in 1965, this terre de faïence sculpture with white slip is inscribed on the sculptural base with the atelier stamps ‘EDITION PICASSO’ and ‘MADOURA...

Guardians of temples or shrines placed on each side of entrance, believed to ward off Evil Spirit’s. They look Angry, but not at You. They are Protecting you from Bad Spirits! The m...