Mark Bulwinkle Studio Pottery Tree Tile

A studio pottery tile by the American artist Mark Bulwinkle (born 1946). This tile depicts the impressed image of a stylized tree with branches for arms and face smiling out from its leafy canopy. The verso of the tile is marked "Bulwinkle."

Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Bulwinkle studied at the University of Pittsburgh as well as the San Francisco Art Institute. He learned welding while living in San Francisco and worked as an industrial welder at Bethlehem Ship Yards until he became a full time artist in the 1980s. Bulwinkle is considered part of the West Coast Funk movement, an art movement that was in reaction to abstract expressionism and its non-objectivity. 

Measurements:

1.5” W x 2” H x .5” D.

Condition notes:

Small chips to back edges.