Diane Lewis is known for her tightly painted miniature pottery.  This is one of her very intricately painted seedpots.  The top is painted with two Mimbres lizards.  Each lizard has additional Acoma designs and is painted with natural clay slips.  The style of the lizards are inspired by the Mimbres pottery of the 1100’s. Spiraling out around the lizards is a classic Acoma design representing the yucca leaf.  The yucca plant is used to paint the designs on the Acoma pottery!  It is an exciting modern interpretation of classic Acoma imagery.  It is signed on the bottom, “D. Lewis”.