Maria Alvarez Echenique

My career in ceramics started because I love working with clay and it gave me many possibilities of expressing my creativity and ideas through shapes, surfaces and volume, while also bringing personality, imagination and inspiration into play. During my degree, I started to study the expressive ran…

My work has aimed to spark some thought on man's place in the natural world, not through polemics or overtly 'political' work, but through the languages of ceramics & the creation of striking juxtapositions, strange metamorphoses and multi-layered surreal images. Over the years I have been producing…

I employ different methodologies of making depending on the requirements of the individual piece. I work primarily with porcelain, exploring its qualities through a combination of hand-building & casting techniques. More recently I have extended my practice to creating handbuilt pieces from terracot…