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Celestial Blue Face Vase 1 – Mel Titus

$70.00

A small vessel with a face enrobed in a starry sky, Mel Titus’s signature organic form carries presence and quiet mischief. Richmond collectors know what it means to own one: decades of steady-making, a lineage of craft, and her open heart. Mel’s truth—“Nature inspires my work. Nature inspires my life.”—reveals itself in the soft silhouette of its nose and closed eyes, the way a face can be both intuitive guardian and companion.

Complete the pair with her Celestial Blue Vase with Dragonfly and you get a little domestic ritual: two beings joining you for a little dragonfly watching. Together they finish a story the single piece only begins. Collecting Mel’s work is holding a slice of Richmond’s living craft history, made by a woman who’s been turning clay into magic for over 50 years.

Celebrate Mel. Collect one or all three. Let’s continue to enjoy her sculpted vessels and celestial forms as vigils.

Materials: high fire stoneware, glaze
Dimensions: 9 x 4 x 4.25 inches
2026

If you have any questions or would like to inquire about this piece, email Sylvia.

A small vessel with a face enrobed in a starry sky, Mel Titus’s signature organic form carries presence and quiet mischief. Richmond collectors know what it means to own one: decades of steady-making, a lineage of craft, and her open heart. Mel’s truth—“Nature inspires my work. Nature inspires my life.”—reveals itself in the soft silhouette of its nose and closed eyes, the way a face can be both intuitive guardian and companion.

Complete the pair with her Celestial Blue Vase with Dragonfly and you get a little domestic ritual: two beings joining you for a little dragonfly watching. Together they finish a story the single piece only begins. Collecting Mel’s work is holding a slice of Richmond’s living craft history, made by a woman who’s been turning clay into magic for over 50 years.

Celebrate Mel. Collect one or all three. Let’s continue to enjoy her sculpted vessels and celestial forms as vigils.

Materials: high fire stoneware, glaze
Dimensions: 9 x 4 x 4.25 inches
2026

If you have any questions or would like to inquire about this piece, email Sylvia.

Celestial Blue Vase with Dragonfly – Mel Titus
Celestial Blue Vase with Dragonfly – Mel Titus
$50.00
Celestial Blue Face Vase 2 – Mel Titus
Celestial Blue Face Vase 2 – Mel Titus
$70.00

Mel Titus – Ceramic Artist

Mel Titus has been in clay or mud since childhood, beginning with slipware alongside her mother in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, she apprenticed at the Hand Workshop, now the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, where her foundation in ceramic craft deepened. She later worked as a studio assistant at Freimarck Pottery in the 1980s and Camden Clayworks from 2012–2013.

At age 60, Mel opened her own pottery studio, Mel’s Pottery, originally in Ashland and now located in Richmond’s Bryan Park area.

Guided by her belief that “Nature inspires my work. Nature inspires my life,” her pieces reflect a lifelong conversation with the earth itself.

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