I am Ione Tissot the daughter of Felix Tissot.
In the year 1956 a naturalised US citizen of French origin arrived in Taxco, Mexico to start a a new ceramic studio. He had been living at Leona Valley outside Los Angeles in a barren part of the Mojave desert where he was slowly establishing himself as a "Contemporary Modern" ceramist and his work had reached a level of professional production that he had several exhibits in the early 1950's at the famous Gump's department store in San Francisco.
After arriving in Taxco, Felix soon set up a studio in partnership with Antonio Castillo witch was a mear legal requirement to open a business in Mexico, Felix also met a beautiful and talented artist from Canada, Jane Keenan they were married and living in an apartment in what is now Taxco's municipal hall "Casa Jana" where we see them over breakfast. Here also is seen the first line of ceramics that Felix produced in Taxco. To me it has the "Modern Look" similar to the Dansk line of matt glazed utility pottery.
Felix soon realized that the Nauhatl indians from Amayaltepec in the mountains outside the nearby city of Chilpancingo, who were skilled at drawing indian scenes on a bark paper called Amate, could also draw on his ceramics. He transported his sanded bisqueware to the artist's mountain villages which included Ameyaltepec to be decorated and returned to a new studio indians artwork became what is known as the "Fantasia" line of ceramic wares where no two were ever the exact same pattern and each artist inscribed his mark on the bottom as did the finish sander and the glazier. This explains the rather cryptic letters and numbers inscribed on each piece.
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