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For more than three decades, artist and tile maker Michelle Griffoul has pushed at the boundaries of her chosen medium. Her wildly colorful and boldly expressive works bristle with a passion for nature and a love of whimsy, resulting in a body of work unique in the realms of interior, exterior and watershape design. In this feature, she defines her distinctive approach to a classic material and takes us on a pictorial tour of her colorful works of art.

Coloring with Clay

I've been playing with clay for a long time - ever since 1968, when I took my first ceramics class in high school. Clay has captured my imagination mainly with its flexibility: I can carve it, build with it and even color it. For years, I've sculpted pieces of tile out of stoneware and porcelain clay. The individual pieces are then combined to create mosaic compositions, which, among other things, means that I'm able to create works of art that can go just about anywhere and are especially at home in and around water. Now, more than 30 years into working with this wonderful medium as a potter, then as an art student in the United States and Italy and especially in