Art Tile Murals
by ceramics artist Susan Martin Serra
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Little Faye. Hand-painted maiolica glaze
on earthenware. 30" high x 40" wide.
This mural was created as an illustrated passage to the Zane
Grey novel Riders of the Purple Sage. This painting
depicts a scene from the book in which Little Faye is in danger
of being kidnapped by bandits. The subtle images depicted
in the painting allude to the evil lurking around. A scorpion
climbs upward in the border at the left side of the painting
near an empty nest that rests in the crotch of the highly
stylized tree. At the bottom, near the roots of the tree is
a Mormon cricket representing pestilence and predation. A
tiny grave marker at the right lower corner bears the image
of an angel with wings to suggest the possible fate of death,
while just below and right appears the likeness of a moth
that visually morphs into a wolf at a second glance.
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