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Artist's Biography

As founder and creator of Arius Tile, Roberta Goodman has gained a national and international reputation for her designs and glazing techniques. Her work was recently featured in the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe and on the Home and Garden TV network.

Best known for her resonant shamanistic images and clarity of color, Roberta has spent a lifetime adapting her inner visions to ceramic form. The pastoral landscapes and artifacts of her beloved Southwest inspire many of her designs, and the rich traditions of Native American art vibrate in her designs with the dreamlike urgency of ancient European cave paintings. It was after traveling through France, in the Dordogne, Lot and Ardeche regions, that Roberta began "to fuse these primordial images that are my heart." She expanded her tile paintings into three-dimensional pots, plates and bowls, innovating with glazes, including majolica that she had learned earlier in Italy and Turkey.

Travel has been important to Roberta Goodman, but never to the exclusion of domestic life. Images of food, rituals of the hearth, family milestones and religious celebrations, all are sharply observed in Roberta's art. An animal lover whose household has included dogs, cats, and parrots, she is especially fond of a series she created that displays over one hundred individual canine breeds.

Roberta has lived in Santa Fe since 1971 where she immerses herself in that unique city's diverse cultures. All of her newer series can be viewed at www.cavehorseart.com and also at www.ariustile.com. Renowned for her versatility, Roberta Goodman also creates custom art and custom-made functional ware.

Each one of Roberta's works of art are individually handpainted, unique and signed by Roberta herself.

"With the appearance of our earliest ancestors, prehistoric art was born. The earliest humans decorated everyday objects, and portrayed human and animal images on blocks of rock.

The most astonishing rock art emerged approximately 15,000 to 22,000 years ago in the Magdalenian Period—primarily in Europe. Large areas in France and Spain contain caves rich in this most ancient art. While visiting some of these sites—Rouffignac, Pech-Merle, Cougnac, Font-de-Gaume, Lascaux—I became so enchanted with these shamanic images, that I began painting adaptations on tiles, murals, plates and pots. While personally hand-painting each ceramic piece, I try to exude the feeling tone of these remarkable images."
                                —Roberta Goodman




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