"Cubic Rose", 2009
Burnished earthenware, 22 x 18 x 18 cms

Statement
My education in the field of art history and art and education preceded my encounter with ceramics, while I was doing a Master in Art and Education in New York University.  
It was not until meeting the Uruguayan ceramic artist Lydia Buzio in N.York did I, at her encouragement and suggestion decided to go to study ceramics, as she had done, in the studio of Josep Collell in Montevideo.

I learned ceramics with Josep Collell, my uncle, a painter and ceramic artist, who had joined the Taller Torres-Garcia in Montevideo in the early nineteen-fifties. Under the influence of pre-Columbian ceramics, he developed a technique of painting and burnishing ceramics which allowed him to approach ceramics as paintings, enlarging the scope for colour and introducing a wide Mediterranean palette.

I became entranced by ceramics and this painterly technique of approaching the medium in my training at the studio of Josep Collell. During this time I learned not only a specific technique but I also discovered a way of understanding ceramics, which could join the architectural and painterly with the structure and surface of each piece, in such a way that only ceramics can accomplish so broadly.

Concept  and technique
I approach and feel ceramics as a will of form, a sense of construction.   
Building ceramics from slabs enables me to understand the pieces as constructions, three-dimensional places, whose enveloping walls become painterly surfaces as if they were the walls of a fresco.

Painting with watery engobes over the dried clay surface enables it to act like a canvas and  the burnishing technique provides a warm finish that enhances the colour palette. So far I work mainly within the frame of ceramics as containers. I want to explore and develop the relationship between form and surface, their play and tension.

It is my desire to build suggestive objects that could be present in our environment through a scale that appeals to our sense of touch, to their capacity to hold, caress and measure. I am fascinated by the evocative capacity of the objects whose quietly strong presence can bring respite to our often crowded daily spaces and lives.