BOUNTIFUL — Sometimes, the best way to enjoy art is to slow down, relax, and give yourself time to take it all in.

The two artists currently being featured at Lamplight Gallery in Bountiful (170 S. Main) reward that kind of close examination. Featured artist Mary Anne Loveless and guest artist City Erickson, whose work will be on display now through the end of the month, delight in a wide array of delicate and eye-catching details that invite you to just keep looking.

Loveless, who has a permanent display at the gallery and has also had her journals featured, this time focuses on some of her larger beads. The windows in the front of the gallery have large, close-up photos of color-related beads, while a display in the back gives them focused attention with an individual bead placed on a bed of single-colored, textured fabric.

It was the fabric-backed display that I found the most enlightening, with plainer swatches highlighting the details in the feather motif on one bead, or the subtle shine of another highlighting a shimmery patch on a bead that I had previously missed.

It’s Erickson’s work, however, that was the biggest surprise. Working under the name White Buffalo Pottery (and directing all proceeds to the Jimmy Lewis Foundation), her work brings Greek and Renaissance pottery and tile work back to vivid, rich life. Each plate and jar is detailed enough to be the focus of its own display, from the beautifully dressed Renaissance men and women on a set of plates to the Madonna and child surrounded by angels.

My favorite were the apothecary jars, particularly the one where a lion is fighting a dragon. Though the jar itself is relatively small, you can see the individual flowing hairs on the lion’s mane and the tiny curved spikes on the dragon’s back.

jwardell@davisclipper.com