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Carol Broll's Ceramic Tile Art and Gifts

New York, NY

 
Carol Broll's Ceramic Tile Art and Gifts

Cockatoo
Cockatoo
Sake Serving Tray
Sake Serving
Tray
4" tile mounted on black wooden box
4" tile mounted
on black wooden...
Faust 2 (see translation below)
Faust 2 (see
translation...
Open view of black wooden box
Open view of
black wooden box
Lighthouse
Lighthouse

Galleries
NEW!!! 8" tiles
 Four new 8" tiles with vivid colors. Two of the tiles are with social protest themes

NEW!!! 4" tile whimsy
 This gallery contains new whimsical 4" tile designs mounted in frames, boxes and trivets

COMMISSIONED WORK
 Inspired by the poetry tiles, the text on these tiles was supplied by the clients. They are either excerpts from a favorite poem or their own original text(enhanced with my original illustrations). One of the tiles is a whimsical portrait of a client's two...

POETRY IMAGES
 8" ceramic tile squares set in black wooden frames ready for hanging. They contain excerpts from poems that I found particularly moving and are illustrated with what I saw in my imagination when I read the poem.

FRAMED WALL TILES
 8" and 6" ceramic tiles mounted in wooden frames and ready for hanging on the wall. Most frames are black, and a few are rosewood.

SOCIAL COMMENTARY
 6" ceramic tiles with quotes by famous people which are still relevant today

CERAMIC TILE GIFT ITEMS
 Original tile paintings mounted in a variety of gift formats.

GOETHE'S FAUST TRIVETS
 Goethe's Faust was written in the early to mid 1800's. Its message is timeless. I have chosen several quotes that are particulary meaningful today and written them on tiles that are mounted in black metal trivet frames. The quotes are in the original German...

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About the artist
Carol's Ceramic Tile Art and Gifts
I've just retired from a career in technology and am now devoting my time to my ceramic tile art. Ceramics is not so much an issue of texture to me, as an alternative canvas for expressing feelings and ideas. I love the crispness and luster of the medium and find that it accentuates my designs. I have a great love of classic literature and poetry. In many of my tiles I combine excerpts from literary works that have moved me with my designs to create a product that reflects the marriage of the written word...