"Ladies at Tea" Mixed Media Tile by Pauline Hughes

Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her works. This lovely mixed-media tile dresses two painted figures in fragments of printed fabrics. The view behind the two figures provides a glimpse at an opulent hallway, an ambiguous setting that lends the tile an uncanny sense of depth. Hughes holds a degree in ceramic arts from Brighton Polytechnic and exhibits widely in the United Kingdom and United States.