Dishes
Once dipped in glaze, dishes, become like primed canvasses awaiting a subject, a fusion of the observed and imagined. The portrait dishes are softly coiled, their painted images inspired by portraits in European paintings and frescos. In other dishes animal subjects create their own narrative.
Agalis Manessi
London, England
Frida Khalo, Agalis ManessiHand painted maiolica dish with portrait (after Frida Khalo)
Emilie Flöge, Agalis ManessiMaiolica painted dish (after Klimt)
Isabella Blow, Agalis ManessiMaiolica painted dish with portrait of Isabella Blow
Lucas (after Cranach), Agalis ManessiHand painted maiolica dish with portrait inspired by Lucas Cranach the Elder