Raku-Fired Sun & Moon Wall Hanging Sculpture | Mel Titus | Crone House, Richmond, VA
"The Divine Feminine" Sun & Moon Wall Sculpture by Mel Titus | Crone House, Richmond, VA
Raku-Fired Sun & Moon Wall Hanging Sculpture | Mel Titus | Crone House, Richmond, VA
"The Divine Feminine" Sun & Moon Wall Sculpture by Mel Titus | Crone House, Richmond, VA

The Divine Feminine | Mel Titus

$200.00
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The Divine Feminine is a raku-fired ceramic wall sculpture—a single face that is both sun and moon at once, day and night, eyes closed in trance. It renders the Divine Feminine as most cultures have long held her: sun and moon together, marking the summer solstice in the care of each other.

Mel Titus, a Richmond ceramic artist, hand-builds and gilds each piece, then fires it raku-style and lets the kiln do the rest. The crackle glaze, the copper flash, the purple crescent, the gilded sun, and three crystal pendants that chime softly when the room moves are all marks of that firing.

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
12 × 14 × 3 in

The Divine Feminine is a raku-fired ceramic wall sculpture—a single face that is both sun and moon at once, day and night, eyes closed in trance. It renders the Divine Feminine as most cultures have long held her: sun and moon together, marking the summer solstice in the care of each other.

Mel Titus, a Richmond ceramic artist, hand-builds and gilds each piece, then fires it raku-style and lets the kiln do the rest. The crackle glaze, the copper flash, the purple crescent, the gilded sun, and three crystal pendants that chime softly when the room moves are all marks of that firing.

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
12 × 14 × 3 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