Vtg Pat Custer Denison Signed Pottery Tile Trivet A Seasoned Performer Carrot

Description

Pat Custer Denison Signed Pottery Tile Trivet titled “A Seasoned Performer.” Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS Mail.
The tile is in excellent vintage condition with no chips cracks or crazing.
PAT CUSTER DENISON has been a professional artist since her training in painting and printmaking at the University of Michigan (1966-1970). Pat and her husband, Chip Denison began their marriage in 1970, as well as began displaying and selling Pat's prints and paintings at Michigan outdoor art fairs. About 1975, Pat bought a kiln and started firing silk screened ceramic glaze on tiles. Her love for the fired colors extended to large tile paintings. These paintings began to get quite elaborate when, with Chip's help, they were framed with shaped, cut out wood with dimensional aspects and found objects. Reluctantly, with only so much time in a day, Pat put aside her printmaking and acrylic painting on canvas to concentrate on her tile work. By 1990 Chip sold his construction equipment and came to work in the art studio full time. Pat is always the artist/ designer with Chip being the perfect facilitator. Chip often claims his job description includes any work that Pat doesn't think is fun. When the couple moved from Mt. Clemens, MI in 1998 they intended to move south, but lost their hearts to a special spot in a wetlands on a small lake in Benzie County, MI (Up North, southwest of Traverse City, at the south end of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore).
Pat designed their house and studio and Chip, as always, the perfect facilitator, built Pat's plan. For a number of years the Denisons had open studio hours and received many visitors to the home,studio,gallery and garden. Currently the Denisons' gallery is not open to the public and they are no longer doing art fairs.
Pat has set aside ceramics so that she can concentrate on watercolor paintings on paper. She has also returned to her printmaking roots and has revived her printing press and had gone deeply into digital printmaking.
This tile measures approximately 8” x 6” and dates to pre-1998 when they moved to Northern Michigan. Pat is no longer making tiles. This tile and others I will list are great collectibles and would add a splash of color to any decor. The last pictures shows all of Pat’s tiles that I currently have listed.