Hi and welcome!
I am Valeria, an Italian Landscape Architect turned Ceramicist. I am currently based in North London where I have established a small but functional home-studio. I make and decorate all of my pieces in an upstairs room, then fire them in my shed in the garden.
Every piece is individually made and decorated by hand, either thrown on the potter’s wheel or hand-built, aiming at elegance through simplicity.
I mix my own clay body, using various stoneware clays and porcelain, to achieve a personal canvas to work on with minimal patterns.
My wares are to be considered unique pieces - since none is equal to the others - to be mixed and matched for a vibrant Mediterranean style table.
My work is, in fact, inspired by memories of the Mediterranean and its cultural heritage, combined with the subtle lines of Japanese design and aesthetics. Traditional antique shapes are reimagined and playfully turned into refined, contemporary pieces. Celebrating nature - water, botany, clouds, wild landscapes - and awakening emotions, my ceramics are made to forge new memories with family and friends.
Alongside making tableware and vases I am working on an experimental body of work which combines different media; abstract painting, embroidery, slip-casting and hand-building porcelain on 1900’s hand-woven linens stretched onto frames, as canvases.
If you like to know more of my journey and have insights into my making processes and daily studio life follow me on Instagram
