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Eartha Handmade Tile is a small studio specializing in the creation of exquisite hand crafted decorative tiles and mosaics. With roots firmly planted in the art tile renaissance, Eartha uses traditional tile forming methods to create brightly glazed, relief-sculpted images in terra cotta clay. <br><br> Eartha is the creation of artist Parran Collery. Encouraged at an early age by her artist-mother, Parran's interest in art never wavered, even as she explored the worlds of psychology, women's studies and literature in college. Now in her hometown studio in Southern Maryland, her beloved dog Randall almost always accompanies Parran. She enjoys the daily routines of studio, nature and art history exploration and the creation of art objects.

Eartha
A small staff of craftsmen contributes to the making of the lamps and shades at W. Kohler. The business has grown throughout the years, but the uniqueness and quality of each lamp remains. These lamps are inlaid with brilliant turquoise, worked into mesquite wood burls; two materials emblematic of the American Southwest, where they are made. No two are the same, each reflecting the unique characteristics and personality of a single tree.

Kohler Lamps
Leaf Lines offers many kinds of skeletonized leaves, and the patterns are varied, complex and beautiful. Booker Morey discovered a hand process for making certain tree leaves lacy in 1993. Each leaf is processed individually and by hand. During his career as an engineer, Booker became fascinated with the vein structure of leaves. He wanted to incorporate skeletonized leaves into his wood turning hobby but quickly discovered the leaves captivate people's interest. This hobby has grown steadily into a full-time career allowing Booker to pursue the craft for the past 13 years. <br><br>

Leaf Lines
Lisa Muller has been developing her current body of work for seven years. First inspired by the work of Henry Mercer of Doylestown PA, her imagery-rich style combines mythology, history and everyday observation using humor and metaphor. We live our lives according to a collection of stories we choose to believe. It is the power of these narratives that intrigues her. <br><br> Growing up, Lisa learned to make things in "self defense". Her parents, driven by creative will and budget constraints, converted each room in their suburban home according to their current medium of interest. When she saw something in a store that she wanted - whether it was go-carts, puppets or dresses - her parents would invariably say "Oh, you could make one SO much nicer than that!". And so she tried. <br><br> Lisa's connection with materials remains her primary incentive for working. "The sheer joy of merging an idea with the concrete terms of the physical world, gets me out of bed in the morning," she says. She lives and works in Pottstown, PA.

Lisa Muller
For over 20 years, the artisans at Motawi Tileworks have hand-crafted art tile in their Ann Arbor, Michigan, studio. These distinctive tiles are known for their rich glazes and and uniquely American designs, inspired by nature, art and architecture. Unlike mass-produced tile, the unique design, beautiful craftsmanship, and affordability of Motawi tile allows people to own and enjoy real art, which won't go out of style and will last for generations. <br><br> Nawal Motawi, founder of Motawi Tileworks, was first exposed to the tile of the Arts & Crafts movement at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, which she visited during her first college ceramics class. "My professor had just completed a gigantic tile mural created with Pewabic Pottery, which he took us all to see," says Nawal, "and I immediately began to fantasize about someday making tilework like that!" In 1992 she set out on her own, starting what soon became Motawi Tileworks. The frames are handmade in Ohio by an Arts & Crafts studio formed in the early 20th century.

Motawi Tile
Diana explains, "I'm always looking for the poetry." "It could be the color of café au lait in a white cup or the flash of a cardinal in January. It could be the fragrance of old books or a deep green lake or line-dried sheets. I am especially inspired by the Japanese art of Wabi-Sabi and its reverence for the melancholy beauty of an old barn, a forgotten farmhouse, a lost city building." <br><br> "I live in a little Cape Cod village, and when the four o'clocks hit on a December afternoon, I can walk to the ocean with my sister, look out toward England and imagine holly hocks and crooked gardens. I believe in wearing party dresses any day of the week and putting on my wonderglasses when the poetry is hard to find." <br><br> "Working as a writer and artist, I tell myself there are no mistakes, only surprises."

Stoneheart