Mayra Stoneware Design and NOVICA Tile

• Three carved high relief tiles make this mural of a Tiger in Bamboo scene. For an artistic back-splash or anywhere a mural is desired.
• Mayra rolled out large slabs of clay, then carved the forms of the tiger and bamboo.

After all was carved the finished mural was slowly dried. Then Mayra applied her glazes and fired the mural to 2400 degrees Fahrenheit. Making this piece very durable.

• 33" length x 20" height
• 1/2 - 1" thick

Buddha Bamboo Grove Mural
Mayra rolled out slabs of clay. Adding clay to form the basic Buddha shape, she then carved in the detail, bringing life to the form. Using extruded forms, she created the bamboo, carving in the detail when the clay was leather hard. Then the rocks, mountains and waterfall were carved in after adding clay to form a high relief. After careful drying over several days it was bisc fired, then glazed with Mayra's Celadon glaze formulation and fired to 2400 degrees in a controlled reduction atmosphere.

Three separate tiles make this mural. They can be set together or with a space between each. Middle tile measures 17" x 8.5" End tiles measure 14" x 8" each 3/8" - 1" thick
The tiles are created to be offset, as per example in the photos.

Dawn comes to Northeastern Brazil, where the farm is bustling with activity in this naif portrait by Ivan Borges. The cow is milked, chickens fed and water fetched from the river where an industrious young man is fishing. Everyone gets an early start to avoid the midday heat.
Afterward there is time for play as a couple dallies in a hidden countryside bower in the shade of a cashew tree. Birds serenade them and a lizard watches curiously. Suggesting the Garden of Eden, a serpent slithers up the tree trunk.

• Ivan Borges works in the woodcut technique, transferring the images to ceramic and framing both in a single composition.
• Titled "Amanhecer na Fazenda" and "Namoro do Matuto," in Portuguese.