"Naughty Bunny Hop" by Cynthia McIntosh

Unique ceramic dish, 3.5 x 2.5 inches, non-glazed, 2023.

Ceramic artist and painter, Cynthia McIntosh, was born in 1960 into a family of artists in Pasadena, California. Her mother Alice, a dancer and teacher, introduced her to the world of ballet and tap at an early age and her father, Jack McIntosh, was a well-known painter in the San Francisco arts scene where they lived for several years. Having practically grown up in the San Francisco Art Institute where her father taught, Cynthia took in a diversity of artistic influences. After many years as a dancer touring and performing in shows including the Moulin Rouge in Paris, she began painting and gravitated to ceramics and porcelain. Cynthia reveled in the energy of potentially chaotic outcomes with designs, glazes and forms during the firing process.

Cynthia's iconography ranges from flawed women to frisky rabbits and poetic boxing champs. With her women in particular—high- minded ladies oblivious to their demented, caricatural expressions and disheveled bodies—she draws on a rich biography of lived experience in a society of posers and pretenders. Her work harnesses a keen sense of color to elements of fantasy, whimsy and even brutality.

Currently residing in Pasadena, Cynthia has retired from a long career in animation at many of the top studios from Disney and Warner Brothers to Cartoon Network where she worked on her personal favorite, Adventuretime. She plans to continue pursuing her love of ceramic art and painting and explore innovative ideas for set design.