Extreme close-up of burgundy and olive glaze meeting on a crackled ceramic surface

Painting · Pottery · Pattern · Surface

Isabella
Riley

Isabella Riley is a multidisciplinary artist, working with mediums such as oil on canvas, illustration and ceramics.

Macro detail of ochre and terracotta brushwork
Brushwork
Macro detail of thick crackled burgundy glaze
Glaze
Macro detail of hand-cut teal, pink and ochre tesserae
Tesserae
01The Work

Not products. Surfaces. Colour, pattern, mark-making and composition — expressed through painting and pottery.

Discipline 01

Painting

Paintings, line drawings and illustration — colour and mark-making as the subject itself.

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Discipline 02

Pottery

Vessels designed as surfaces — painted, patterned, glazed — and mosaics cut and set by hand.

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02Latest from the Studio
Close study of ochre and terracotta brushwork
Brushwork study2026

Placeholder — replace with Isabella's painting

Tight crop of a burgundy and olive hand-painted decorative vessel
Burgundy vessel2025

Hand-painted glazed stoneware

Close crop of olive and burgundy pattern on glazed ceramic
Olive pattern study2025

Glazed ceramic, painted pattern