María Poyato, artist.

Hi there! I’m María, an artist based in Edinburgh, currently making ceramics, illustration, exploring mixed media and spending as much time outdoors as I can.

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I graduated in Audiovisual Communication in Spain, then moved to Edinburgh in 2018 to keep exploring my creative practice, becoming an illustrator and a potter.

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My work is influenced by how nature helps us feel sane and grounded, inviting us to live a slow, simple and yet joyful life.

 

Focusing on the landscape that surrounds me, I explore the organic beauty that I find in nature, with a special interest in found objects and earthy colours.

This results in my ceramics bearing a significant presence of botanic motifs, organic textures, animals and astrology with a rustic, homely, earth-reverent feel to them.

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I like to wheel-throw most of my pieces but hand building and modelling are important techniques in my practice too. I use found objects to leave organic marks and imprints on my pieces, such as leaves, bark and fossils, as well as illustration techniques like sgraffito and hand carving. I use a range of stoneware bodies and fire in both oxidation and reduction.

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After a two year apprenticeship at Mud Station Pottery, now I work as a Studio Assistant for Aku Ceramics and volunteer as a Student Officer at the Scottish Potter's Association.

I often show and sell my artwork at markets and local shops around Edinburgh and I have been part of a few art exhibitions. To find more about this, please follow my social media @maripoyis

My dream is to be a full time potter, set up a teaching pottery studio, create community around crafts and neighbours and to embrace a slower life connected to nature's rhythms.
 
If you have an idea for a project or commission, let’s have a chat!