About

My ceramic journey

With a background in journalism & media, I only in the last few years, started exploring my artistic interest for ceramics and the infinite possibility of making objects with clay. I hand-build free form vessels and sculptures using techniques such as coiling, pinching and lately Kurinuki, a Japanese method of hollowing out from a solid block of clay, carving out a vessel to create ‘interior space’.

I started on the wheel in the Cotswold where I was living for a few years before coming back to London, but soon I started gravitating more and more toward traditional hand building techniques, and lately my creative journey has been fully focused on the Kurinuki technique.

Very instinctual.

The Kurinuki method of making is all about energy. The motion is quick, but it’s not just the speed. It contains momentum. I live in London and working from Urban Potters Studio in Camberwell Green and from my space at home in Dulwich.

I combine my making of chawan & yunomi cups, tea caddies while researching Japanese pottery & the tea rituals in the East but also a free interpretation adapted for our more western life.

I am mostly using stoneware, vulcan black clay, terracotta … depending on my making.

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Mari creates unique handbuilt kurinuki vessels in beautiful Dulwich