Extreme close-up of burgundy and olive glaze meeting on a crackled ceramic surface

Painting · Pottery · Pattern · Surface

Isabella
Riley

Isabella Riley is an artist working across painting and pottery. Two disciplines, one obsession: colour, pattern, line and surface — painted, drawn, glazed, cut and set.

Macro detail of ochre and terracotta brushwork
Brushwork
Macro detail of thick crackled burgundy glaze
Glaze
Macro detail of hand-cut teal, pink and ochre tesserae
Tesserae
01The Work

Not products. Surfaces. Colour, pattern, mark-making and composition — expressed through painting and pottery.

Discipline 01

Painting

Paintings, line drawings and illustration — colour and mark-making as the subject itself.

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Discipline 02

Pottery

Vessels designed as surfaces — painted, patterned, glazed — and mosaics cut and set by hand.

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02Latest from the Studio
Close study of ochre and terracotta brushwork
Brushwork study2026

Placeholder — replace with Isabella's painting

Tight crop of a burgundy and olive hand-painted decorative vessel
Burgundy vessel2025

Hand-painted glazed stoneware

Close crop of olive and burgundy pattern on glazed ceramic
Olive pattern study2025

Glazed ceramic, painted pattern