# Blue Fish Ceramic totem

A bold flat fish sits at the very top, scales worked carefully into the clay, looking out over everything below. Underneath, a face. Below that, another fish. The whole piece moves through warm ochre, coral, and earthy green in a stack that feels like a small mythology unto itself. At twenty-six inches it fits on a desk or a shelf but carries the spirit of something much larger. Zimmerman has always loved animals, and that genuine affection shows in every creature he puts his hands on. Works well on a shelf or desk indoors, or set on a plinth in a sheltered garden spot.

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## Details

- **Price:** 1800.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Ceramic Sculpture
- **Tags:** animal art, buy original art online, California artist, ceramic sculpture, fish, hand-built ceramic, Marc Zimmerman, totem, under 2500

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 1800.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Blue Fish Ceramic Totem – compact 26-inch hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with bold flat fish at crown with carefully worked scales, face below, another fish further down, in warm ochre, coral, and earthy green from Venice Beach pottery tradition

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 26'' high
- **Artist Material:** Ceramic
- **Artist Name:** Marc Zimmerman
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/marc-zimmerman

### About The Artist Content

Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, recognized for exuberant, color-driven works that fuse tropical imagery, figurative elements, and stylized botanical forms. Across both canvas and clay, his practice is defined by a playful visual language and a confident orchestration of color that feels at once joyful, intuitive, and structurally resolved.

Zimmerman’s distinctive vocabulary was shaped early through his work in woodcut printmaking, which instilled the crisp edges and compositional clarity that continue to anchor his paintings today. His lush, immersive environments draw inspiration from the dreamlike worlds of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin, while extended periods living and painting in Kauai, Hawaii, as well as time in Mexico and Europe, infused his work with the saturated light and rhythmic vitality that define his celebrated Jungle and Tropical Fantasy Floral series.

In recent years, Zimmerman has returned to his earliest artistic passion, clay, expanding his practice into the sculptural realm with his Garden Totems. These vertically stacked ceramic works are hand-built and individually glazed, each element supporting the next in a spontaneous, intuitive process. Rooted in his pottery background from Venice Beach in the 1960s and 70s, the totems translate his painterly sensibility into three dimensions, bringing the same sense of movement, humor, and joie de vivre into the garden or interior space.

A lifelong artist with more than four decades of studio practice, Zimmerman has been an active presence on the Monterey Peninsula since the 1990s. His work is represented by galleries in California, Florida, and New York, and is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally.

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> Updated: 2026-05-20