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Luna Sansone started doing ceramics full-time a couple of years ago, selling her clay creatures and other creations at the Eugene and Yachats Sunday Markets.
Luna Sansone’s clay creations at the Eugene Saturday Market watch each passerby.
Pots with ogre-like faces and incense holders that look like goblins sit next to baskets of tokens with eyes. Stickers illustrated with horned, fantastical animals and trees with old man features keep watch in their wooden holder.
Sansone, 30, has been drawing since she could hold a pencil.
She has been a full-time ceramics and visual artist for two years and mixes her love of clay, drawing and fantasy into art that makes admirers smile.
Her business, Mudfellows, is inspired by the “grungy fantasy” Sansone grew up with in the 90s. Her top inspiration is Brian Froud, an illustrator who focused on fairytales and folklore in his work on books and films. He was the conceptual designer for “The Dark Crystal” and “Labyrinth”.
While she went to college for illustration, she switched to pottery and graduated with a degree in ceramics instead. But she never stopped drawing, and designs her clay creatures based on her imaginative illustrations.
“I really do like to kind of give my ceramics a similar sort of aesthetic,” she said, “Like they’re a 3D version of a drawing.”
Sansone sells little pots for plants, incense holders, wall hangings, jewelry plates, pins, magnets, stickers and other knick-knacks at the Eugene Saturday Market and at the Yachats Sunday Market every week.
Her planters don’t absorb water like terra cotta pots, which means they can be outside in freezing temperatures and not crack.
The smiling, goblin-faced incense holders are the namesake of her business, some holding incense in their outstretched tongues and others in their heads. Sansone said she came up with the name from mixing “oddfellows” with the material she makes the little creatures out of.
“A lot of ceramicists really like throwing the word mud into our business names,” Sansone said. “We consider ourselves mud people.”
