Raku-Fired Sun & Moon Wall Hanging Sculpture | Mel Titus | Crone House, Richmond, VA
Raku-Fired Sun & Moon Wall Hanging Sculpture | Mel Titus | Crone House, Richmond, VA

Raku-Fired Sun & Moon | Mel Titus

$145.00

Raku-fired ceramic wall-hanging sculpture, this sun and moon face held in two phases at once—day and night, both luminous, eyes closed in trance. Mel Titus—Richmond’s own kiln goddess—hand-builds, gilds, and lets the fire do the rest. The crackle, the copper flash, the purple of the crescent, the gold of the sun, the three crystal pendants that ring soft when the room moves: all the kiln's gifts.

Mel’s work is guided by a simple truth she holds close: “Nature inspires my work. Nature inspires my life.” She’s been making magic in the Richmond art & craft scene for over 40 years; owning one of her pieces is owning a slice of that rare, unbroken lineage of craft, wit, and open heart that’s unique to our city.

2026
Raku fired stoneware, glaze, and crystals; wired and ready to hang
10 × 10 in

Raku-fired ceramic wall-hanging sculpture, this sun and moon face held in two phases at once—day and night, both luminous, eyes closed in trance. Mel Titus—Richmond’s own kiln goddess—hand-builds, gilds, and lets the fire do the rest. The crackle, the copper flash, the purple of the crescent, the gold of the sun, the three crystal pendants that ring soft when the room moves: all the kiln's gifts.

Mel’s work is guided by a simple truth she holds close: “Nature inspires my work. Nature inspires my life.” She’s been making magic in the Richmond art & craft scene for over 40 years; owning one of her pieces is owning a slice of that rare, unbroken lineage of craft, wit, and open heart that’s unique to our city.

2026
Raku fired stoneware, glaze, and crystals; wired and ready to hang
10 × 10 in

Mel Titus | Raku Ceramic Artist | Crone House Richmond, VA
Mel Titus | Raku Ceramic Artist | Crone House Richmond, VA

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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ARTWORK BY MEL