Sgraffito & Mythology Pots

Functional or decorative pottery pieces, decorated with the sgraffito technique or hand painted with oxides and glazed with clear or colored glazes. Some are collaborative pieces. Contact me for a catalogue of available works.

“Apollo is shot by Eros’ arrow”

Eros, angered by Apollo’s implication that one god’s abilities could be greater or lesser than another’s, flies to the peak of Mount Parnassus then draws and fires two arrows: “one kindles love, the other dispels it. The one that kindles is golden with a sharp glistening point, the one that dispels is blunt with lead beneath its shaft. With the second he transfixed [Daphne], but with the first he wounded Apollo piercing him to the marrow of his bones.”

"Stonehenge"

"The death of Orpheus"

The Ciconian women, followers of Dionysus, first threw sticks and stones at him as he played, but his music was so beautiful even the rocks and branches refused to hit him. Enraged, the women tore him to pieces during the frenzy of their Bacchic orgies. His head, still singing mournful songs, floated along with his lyre down the River Hebrus into the sea, after which the winds and waves carried them to the island of Lesbos. There the Muses found them and gave Orpheus a proper burial ceremony. People believed that his grave emanated music, plaintive yet beautiful. His soul descended down to Hades where he was finally reunited with his beloved Eurydice.