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Cynthia Cusick
@teahorsestudio.bsky.social
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Artist, potter, writer, makers of things.
Proprietor of Tea Horse Studio
NYC in EKY
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Said good-bye to my sweetest, best boy on Wednesday. He was 27. See ya on the other side, Tee. ❤️
A woman in a deep red shirt stands next to a flea-bitten grey Arabian gelding in a black rope halter, looking at him admiringly.
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Mad Dog
Hand-drawn and carved
Electric fired stoneware shallow bowl
9” x 1 1/2” deep
(Will be listed later this year)
Mad Dog Hand-drawn and carved Electric fired stoneware shallow bowl 9” x 1 1/2” deep (Will be listed later this year) A snarling blue dog with a blue collar barks at a surprised balding man behind an opening door Inside view. Mad Dog Hand-drawn and carved Electric fired stoneware shallow bowl 9” x 1 1/2” deep (Will be listed later this year) Geometric pie wedges and concentric circles with cross hatching in blues and yellow ochres decorate the underside of this bowl. Bottom view.
February 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Chonky pot
Soda wood fired footed teapot
8”w x 6”h x 5”d
Will be listed later this year.
Chonky pot, pointing left Soda wood fired footed teapot 8”w x 6”h x 5”d Will be listed on my website later this year. A dome shaped teapot, warm brown tones with creamy white glaze points on the handle, lid handle and tip of the spout. The pot is textured with home made stamps from shells. It sits on four cylindrical feet Chonky pot, pointing right Soda wood fired footed teapot 8”w x 6”h x 5”d Will be listed on my website later this year. A dome shaped teapot, warm brown tones with creamy white glaze points on the handle, lid handle and tip of the spout. The pot is textured with home made stamps from shells. It sits on four cylindrical feet
February 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It’s not about egg prices.
Pen and ink on paper
3”x3”

Speak up. Speak out.
In whatever way you can.
Pen and in drawing in black and white of a screaming egg with mustache and beard and spider appendages. It’s not about egg prices. It’s about white supremacist fascism and authoritarianism. Speak up, how ever you can and often, until your voice is heard.
February 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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W.I.P.
Work in progress of an acrylic painting on panel of Evelyn McHale.
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Long Boi
Stoneware teapot
9”x5”x4” approx
Sod fired in a wood fueled kiln
Hand built from gourd forms
Toasty brown horizontal stoneware teapot on my porch railing. Hand built from gourd forms and footed. Fired in a soda kiln. Approximately 9”x5”x4” Spout pointing right. Teapots will be on the website for sale later this year. Toasty brown horizontal stoneware teapot on my porch railing. Hand built from gourd forms and footed. Fired in a soda kiln. Approximately 9”x5”x4” Spout pointing left. Teapots will be on the website for sale later this year.
February 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Stoneware teapot with spirals
7”x6”x3.5”
Soda fired
Stoneware teapot with spirals 7”x6”x3.5” Soda fired Warm brown body with a carved spiral, ivory handle and spout and lid. Footed and tilted
February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Soda-fired teapot in stoneware clay
8”x6”x4”
Teapots and additional work will be up on the website later in the year.
Brown and smoky blue soda fired stoneware teapot with four squat feet and a swirly handle on the lid. 8”x6”x4” Will be on the website later this year.
January 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Soda-fired lidded jar, altered stoneware. 4”x6”x3”
This is a small footed lidded jar, 4” wide by 6”high by 3” deep. It’s been fired in a wood fueled soda kiln. It is an asymmetrical circular profile with four small pointed feet made from a slab and cut out, altered and assembled. The main body width and edges are a toasty brown but the face in front (and the back) is a smoky blue with fine crystallization and bright red uneven circular indents in the puffy front of the pot. The top is squarish and has a wee handle. Also glazed in the smoky blue. It is sitting on a plate of oil shale from my yard. It has attitude.
January 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Diatoms. Choices, choices…
Three coffee cups on the sides showing multiple drawings of phytoplankton species that my niece, Allison, studied on the road to her PhD. I’m trying to narrow down the glaze combination that I prefer. Once I do, only dozens more to glaze!
January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Guess who? New painting on the horizon.
Sketch and small photo of a person in a car on a gessoed panel for future painting. Cross your fingers I do it justice.
January 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Photo of Mexican Coke bottles and Gooseberry vine fencing taken 1/27/2025 in my back yard.
Photo taken on 1/27/2025 of eight empty Coke bottles from Mexico (pure cane sugar!) laying on their side pointing towards a stand of bent hog panel with gooseberry vines intertwined. My back yard.
January 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Horse motifs are my bread and butter.
Screenshot of my website shop at teahorsestudio dot com of four white stoneware coffee mugs with recessed trotting horse motif. The trotting horse is a custom stamp design hand drawn by me. Colors in the square recess range from two mugs in amber to green to a light tan with blue horses.
January 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Be kind to possums. They eat ticks.
A whiskey flask thrown, altered and fired in a wood fueled soda kiln. The main body is white stoneware flashed with the shine of the soda and the neck and top is glazed in a smoky blue glaze. On the body is a carved image of a possum with the words “Welcome to Possum Country” incised in black. On my shop at teahorsestudio dot com as Possum Flask 6
January 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Time for an acrylic break.
Dad and the G-men
2025
Acrylic on wood panel
9”x12”
Image of a painting of a row of men in brown and grey suits around a tripod with a movie camera in a basement area of a building in front of a concrete pillar circa 1950s. One figure behind the camera is wearing a cream jacket and has bright red hair. This painting was done in acrylic in a wood panel last week from a black and white photo of my father when he was in police training. 9” x 12”
January 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Stoneware teapot
2012
Pinched, assembled and altered.
High fired in a wood-fueled soda kiln.
My work was informed by mycelium and lichen at that time.
Always an option.
A small quirky toasty brown teapot I made in 2012, footed in the front to give it a jaunty angle with specked gray and gray glazing from added soda ash introduced during the firing. It was made from a large pinch pot in high fire clay and fired in a wood filled soda kiln to over 2350° Fahrenheit. Unfortunately, I cracked the handle, since repaired, so it’s part of my permanent collection. From an early series that were informed by lichen and mycelium tendrils. I might revisit that.
January 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Wheel of fortune.
Shallow bowl, midrange stoneware.
Carved drawing.
Shallow bowl with a carved and colored drawing a mysterious woman with red slits for eyes in a turban shades of Modigliani, pointing downward to a blue snakelike object circling the rim. An abstract four-cornered wheel sits to the right of her elongated face.
January 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Be hopeful and forward looking in these anxious times.
Happy MLK jr. Day.
Anxiety Man soda fired mug 2 Ceramic mug in toasty brown tones with a smoky blue glazed rim. Decorated with a carved cave art shaman like figure, arms upward and spread out and a spiral emanating from its center. Be hopeful and forward looking in these anxious times. Happy MLK jr. Day.
January 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Not this shit again.
Screen shot of a soda fired mug from my website, Anxiety Man Soda fired mug 4. A tall toasty brown mug with a hand drawn cave art like figure in ivory white. Within the figure is a vertical bar like a thermometer marked high in red. The rim is glazed with a smoky bluish green glaze. Tea horse studio ( one word) dot com.
January 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Dad and the G-men, study
Acrylic on card stock
2025
Quick acrylic study of a line of suited male figures in front of an old movie camera on a tripod. Figures are in brownish suits with indistinct pink faces, black hair. One has red hair. Bluish background. For a possible future painting.
January 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Broken bowl of fruit
12”x9”
Acrylic on wood panel
1/15/2025
Derived from the still life of a few days ago, an abstract rendering called “Broken bowl of fruit,” painted in acrylics on 1/15/2025 on a 12”x9” wood panel. Tones of white, gray and muted sea greens scraped across the panel are interrupted by various shapes- three curved slices in deep reddish brown in the upper right quadrant, three red circles floating randomly in the bottom left corner, the mid-bottom and the mid-left, a long yellow vertical curve on the mid-right of the panel from bottom up behind the curved slices, stopping just behind them and an orange sphere behind the vertical yellow shape on the right side. Two sharp thin black lines cross cross the painting diagonally
January 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Make-a da art.
Now I can eat the fruit
1/13/2025
Acrylic on board.
Live fruit from Kroger. Pottery by me.
Set up of a still life on a table with a small painting of it set up to the right. From left to right, still life of a white coffee cup, a bowl of fruit (bananas, pear, pomegranate, oranges and a lime in a brown wooden bowl, a quirky lidded pot in brown, smoky blue and three red spots, and a tall skinny pouring vessel with the bottom in wood-fired brown tones and the top in a smoky light blue. The painting is called “Now I can eat the fruit.” It was painted 1/13/2025. First painting in acrylic I’ve done in years. And it shows haha
January 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Wildfire Brain
1/8/2025
Colorful drawing of a spoked wheel in light bluish green on a grey brown background. In the center is a decorative mandala eye in yellow reds and oranges. Floating over and behind the spikes are bladelike objects in purple outlines in chartreuse waves. Behind the spokes are round discs in orange and reds like slices of fruit.
January 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Snow city in Estill County
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January 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM