. . Suzie Ketchum You take your chances, you roll the dice, you live, you love, and some day your number is up!  Suzie Ketchum creates highly detailed, hand painted ceramics densely illustrated with  iconic and abstract designs. Images of skeletons, dice, hearts strung on barbed wire, floral and abstract designs form a dense continuos mesh of imagery that covers each piece.  Like Mexican Folk Art, her images are playful and brightly colored, with underlying themes that reference core issues of life and death.  Her palette relies on high contrast black and white elements, with carefully place vibrant highlights in primary and secondary colors.  The overall effect is joyfully sensuous and humorously macabre.  Suzie buys unfired vessels from local sources, and concentrates on painting and firing in an electric kiln.  Her editions are small, and each piece is in some way unique. Her glazes are boldly graphic and delightfully glossy, adding to the overall playful feeling of the work.  Over the last ten Years Suzie has exhibited her work in California, Arizona, and Japan. This representative piece was on display at the Art League Gallery.  3 coffee cups and a platter This one's mine! A work in Progress