Mt. St. Helens Box
A friend has been cleaning out her house and asked me if I wanted this piece back. Absolutely! I wish I’d kept more of the pots I made for 20 years. This is porcelain, cone ten reduction from back in the days when could still throw. I know exactly when I made this because the ash cloud in the sky is actual Mt. St. Helens ash, so it was 1980.
7 WAYS TO DECORATE YOUR HOME WITH HAND-PAINTED TILES
The best of both worlds is achieved when paint and tiles are combined. In places with intensive work and activity, such as the kitchen and bathroom, hand painted tile offers the stone-cold toughness required while introducing creative sensibilities that create a cozy and inviting atmosphere. With this kind of personalized tile work, you are not limited by geometric lines or material limitations, and because each pattern is hand-painted, it will always be unique. Come see these seven creative uses for hand-painted tiles in your house with me.
California landscape
This little mural got installed really quickly after it arrived. Sometimes these things take years, or months, but this one went up right away. It features the view from the home in California, with plants in the foreground from the garden there.
Heron & Friends
Here’s another image from my catalogue. I’ve done this one several times as you can see on my Shop page, https://www.paullewingtile.com/shop/heron-friends. There’s a picture of this mural installed in a kitchen.
Waptus Lake Tile
This picture was recently sent to me by someone who had bought this mounted tile piece at an estate sale. The seller had the original receipt from 1995. She paid $295 for it then. It sold at the estate sale for $250.
Hornbills
Here’s a really old one! I was at an art fair over the weekend and a woman came in and said I’d done a mural for her and her husband many years ago. I certainly remembered them because the guy took care of the hornbills at the Woodland Park Zoo.
High School Tile
This is this year’s senior class tile for the high school near Spokane. I’ve done this for them every year since 2006.
The Hunt
Here’s another oldie but goodie. This client showed me this famous piece of South African rock art and wanted me to incorporate it into a story that encompassed the whole of her walk-in shower.
Repeat Pattern
I don’t often reproduce commercial tile but there were enough of these to make it worth while, 110 of the square ones and 120 of the bullnose. I had decals made for the black outlines and then hand colored the spaces.
Amazon Rain Forest
Here’s another nice custom tile bathroom mural from the archives. It’s state of the art handicapped accessible and the clients specified “no snakes, no bats”. But there are frogs.