Z. Miles - Fine Arts Gallery

02/24/2026

Follow my new Youtube channel for demonstrations, tricks, pointers, and an inside look behind the scenes of my studio.

Throwing on the wheel demo. Cylinder.

02/23/2026

New wheel demonstration videos posted this evening! Enjoy! Subscribe…

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02/22/2026

the YOUTUBE channel is up and going. More to come. Excuse the mistakes in this one. Haven’t done instructional videos in a while.

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02/20/2026

Prepping for some home studio videos….. stay tuned.

A new. Self portrait photo and a behind the scenes pic of what a small home studio looks like.

01/17/2026

New Year, New Work.

Exploring some photo transfer printmaking.

10/29/2025

Fun designs!

10/01/2025

A work from my Senior Thesis show at McMurry University ca. 2010. This was my first "large scale" installation piece. I sold the figures individually but the whole piece included the reflection in the great gallery windows.

It may be time to focus on reflection again...

08/15/2025

Some of The Story Behind the Masks:

I’ve produced masks for about 15 years in the studios where I work. There have been entire exhibitions with only masks and they reside in collections of one to 30 across Texas. I personally find it interesting that many of my friends have a mask somewhere in their homes.

The exhibited masks started with a former professor who let us make them in class sometime around 2008. It turned into a side business where I would, at the request of loved ones, go to funeral homes and make a mold of a deceased person’s face and sometimes hands. I’d take the mold back to the studio and ‘work my magic’ and present a timeless remembrance to the family. Note that ‘death masks’ are a very old tradition, especially in Europe but also in the States with notable individuals.

The masks I’ve sold or exhibited have only been based on a mold of my own face.

I usually texture them to be aesthetically pleasing and they usually have some internal meaning behind the texture or where the texture is applied or pieced together. I am purposeful in my placement of the clay so it leaves a ‘scar’ as the scars are also usually associated with internal personal memory or thoughts.

07/29/2025

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05/15/2025

Spring flowers and my Iris collection has often served as a point of inspiration for my sculpture work and glaze colors on my pottery work.