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Shared Enchantments in Clay
Meet the Artists:
Lyn Belisle
Lyn Belisle is a multidisciplinary artist embracing encaustic painting, earthenware, digital imagery, sculpture, textiles and found objects. Her artwork gives expression to her quest to discover and connect synchronistic shards of meaning through collage and assemblage. Her signature media are clay, beeswax, paper and fiber. Lyn’s work can be found in national and international collections. She received her MA from Trinity University where she majored in studio art as an undergraduate. She teaches mixed-media workshops at Lyn Belisle Studio in San Antonio, and also teaches nationally and internationally, most recently in Santa Fe, Provincetown, Washington State, Taos, and Mulranny, Ireland. Lyn recently retired from the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Trinity to work fulltime at her studio. She has work at The Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe and in the San Antonio Art League & Museum. Lyn currently serves as the President of the San Antonio Art League. She is the mother of best-selling author Rick Riordan.
Linda Manning
Linda Manning is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is grounded in clay and shaped by an intuitive, responsive process developed over more than 20 years of studio practice. She holds a BS in Interior Design from the UT at San Antonio School of Architecture and spent two decades working in commercial and residential design before devoting her practice fully to fine art. Working across ceramics and mixed media, Linda builds forms through surface, texture, and evolving material relationships, allowing each piece to develop through attentive making. Manning co-owned and operated a fine art gallery in Boerne, Texas for eight years and has taught clay handbuilding from her studio for more than a decade. Her work engages ideas of endurance, cultural memory, human experience, and the strength and agency of women, drawing parallels between human resilience and the ways land bears and adapts to impact. Linda currently lives and works in Texas and plans to relocate to Santa Fe in the near future.
Virginia and Andre Bally
Founded in 1994, Bally Studios is the culmination of a 35-year creative partnership between Andre and Virginia Bally. A blending of their diverse backgrounds in art and design, their collective vision is an aesthetic deeply influenced by the motifs of traditional Japanese design and the heritage of North American Indigenous tribes. While the duo experiments across a wide array of media—including glass, paper, and metal— their passion remains ceramics. Andre brings over 40 years of material research and experimenta-tion to the studio, while Virginia’s foundation is a fine arts degree in ceramics. The Ballys are deeply rooted in the arts community as
active members of The San Antonio Art League, ClayHouston, and The San Antonio Potters Guild. Their work is held in private collections and exhibitions across the United States, Canada, Europe, and North Africa. Currently based in their studio near Canyon Lake, Texas, the Ballys continue to evolve their craft, welcoming viewers to experience their latest collections by appointment.