Artist Jorge Guillen
Width - 5.75 inches
Height - 3.75 inches
Length - 8.25 inches
Weight - 13 ounces
Artist Jorge Guillen is the potter who has created this lovely tortoise. Fully handmade, the animal exudes a gentle personality. There is a mouth, warm eyes, and diminutive feet (for a tortoise!). His shell is highly polished and decorated with ancient designs from Señor Guillens ancestors one thousand years in the past. The Artist has even included nostrils and toes and a tail, and he has given the skin a textured look. Created from white clay dug from the surrounding foothills of the village, it serves as a canvas for the mineral glazes Señor Guillen has created. For Mata Ortiz animal effigies, this one is in a class of its own.
Señor Guillen signs his artwork.
Width - 5.75 inches
Height - 3.75 inches
Length - 8.25 inches
Weight - 13 ounces
Artist Jorge Guillen is the potter who has created this lovely tortoise. Fully handmade, the animal exudes a gentle personality. There is a mouth, warm eyes, and diminutive feet (for a tortoise!). His shell is highly polished and decorated with ancient designs from Señor Guillens ancestors one thousand years in the past. The Artist has even included nostrils and toes and a tail, and he has given the skin a textured look. Created from white clay dug from the surrounding foothills of the village, it serves as a canvas for the mineral glazes Señor Guillen has created. For Mata Ortiz animal effigies, this one is in a class of its own.
Señor Guillen signs his artwork.