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Summer Highlights
Solo show opens May 25, 2010
The Enchanted Garden
Semantics Gallery
110 4th Ave N.
Edmonds, WA 98020
Featured artist, Crow Valley Pottery annual garden art show
Taking Root in the Garden
Opens June 25, 2010
Crow Valley Pottery
Orcas Island, WA 98245
 Crow Valley Potters' Festival, Orcas Island, WA 98245 July 16, 2010
 Washington Arboretum Foundation, Art in the Park, Seattle, WA 98112 Aug. 12
 MadArt, Madison Park, Seattle, WA opens Sept. 11
 City People Garden Art Show, Seattle, WA 98122 opens Sept. 10
 Artisan Tile Northwest, 5th Annual Tile Festival, Seattle, WA October 2
 Artisan Tile Northwest, Mythical Creatures Show, Seattle, WA October 2
2009 Washington Clay Arts Association Annual Show People's Choice Award
2010 Arfs and Crafts Show Juror's Choice Award
Maria Root started Primitiva Pottery and Tile as a pottery that created planters, dinnerware, and decorative containers. Whimsy infused her style through the years though function remained essential. Function and whimsy are compatible as evident in the addition of her garden art and artisan tile lines.
Maria's signature derives from organic forms with often just less than perfect angles, undulating lip edges, and bulbous bodies. She brings life to each piece through color, texture, and dimensionality through bas relief carving, embossing, and sculpting. Her unique process of layering clays and glazes on her terracotta forms enhance the depth and vibrancy of colors she can achieve on a terracotta clay body. Lastly, many of the artist's works rest on tripod feet whether they are the carved feet of her dinnerware serving bowls, planter pods, 'Gaudi jars,' or pillow boxes.
The simple concepts of Maria's pieces disguise the many steps to accomplish this aesthetic. For example, a tile may take 12 to 15 steps to complete. Terracotta planters may take a dozen steps, whereas a lidded decorative containers may take 25 steps or more. Garden totems and bird spas take too many steps to count--but it is the steps that give each creation its uniqueness.
When one of my creations finds a home with you, I hope that you experience the joy and happiness I had making it. Maria Root
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