VENUE 2 - Maria Poyato, Mud Station Pottery, 16 Montrose Terrace
Pottery & Illustration
Maria Poyato is an artist based in Edinburgh, currently making pots, illustrations and exploring mixed media. Her work is influenced by how nature helps us feel sane and grounded, making it possible for us to live a simple yet joyful life. Focusing on the landscape that surrounds her, she explores the organic beauty that she finds in nature, with a special interest in found objects, leaf patterns, bark textures, shells, fossils and earthy colours. This results in her ceramics bearing a significant presence of botanic motifs, organic textures, animals and stars. She values objects that have a rustic, homely, earth-reverent feel to them. She likes to wheel-throw most of her pieces but hand building and modelling are important techniques in her practice too. She uses found objects to leave organic marks and imprints on her pieces, as well as illustration techniques like sgraffito and hand carving. She uses a range of stoneware bodies and fire in both oxidation and reduction. In a near future, she would love to set up her own studio, deliver fun and arty workshops and have a creative community.
Maria graduated in Audio visual Communication in Spain, then moved to Edinburgh in 2018 in order to keep exploring her creative practice, becoming an illustrator and a potter. She often shows and sells her artwork at markets and local shops around Edinburgh and she has been part of a few art exhibitions.
She works from her home studio and she is also part of the Mud Station team working as an apprentice potter. She helps in the studio, learning and assisting in teaching while exploring her creative practice.
