Delorian Manshi’iet
Soulmeliti Artist
Delorian began his career painting scenes of natural beauty as much as a hobby as any other Soulmeliti artist. As time slowly drifted past and his collection of stretched canvases, covered by trees and waterfalls, flowers and bowls of fruit, accumulated, his reputation amongst the art community of New Solarin grew. Many critics and aficionados cited his sense of composition - objects appeared as precisely the right spot in his paintings - as his greatest talent. Soon - after only a century or so of amateur efforts, Delorian's art began to sell. Many an ancient Soulmeliti house still owns a landscape or still life that he painted in these early days.
As he passed his second century, Delorian began to experiment with the medium upon which his art was produced. He tried wood planks, sections of plaster, and even glass before settling on the fired the fired ceramics that make up the incredibly delicate Soulmeliti porcelain. It was after this discovery, that decided to undertake his most ambitious project, a massive mural, created by tiny individualized tiles, to decorate the Temple of Tyloma. For the next seven decades he hand fired color infused tiles no larger than a fingernail and painstakingly affixed them to the walls of the temple. The work, known as Tyloma’s Grove, eventually reached a size of a hundred feet wide and fifty feet tall, encompassing an entire wall in the Temple. It depicts a stand of trees and garden in which Tyloma herself speaks with several Soulmeliti. The temple proved to be his final work and though he lived nearly another century, he never again fired a kiln or picked up a paint brush.