A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery, beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces between the 1960s and the 1980s using a method of painting glaze onto flattened circular pieces of clay. Then he fired them at high temperatures in a way that created "textures approximating color-field explosions on painted canvas. The glazes separated from the surfaces, thereby creating beaded and streaking textures and effects."

He also used the same approach with earthenware pots, where he experimented with the merging of color glazes. The result was pottery that gave the impression of natu...