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Web Store re-opens December 5, 2011
Super Sale on new work in limited supply
  
Two new pieces will be added each day until December 12, 2011
Washington Clay Arts Association 2010 People's Choice Award
High Tea
Stoneware finial atop 60 inch column of cups, saucers, sugar cubes
Tree Necklace: Kirkland, Wa.
Recent Events: 2011
NEAT: North End Artist Tour December 2-4
7525 41st Ave NE Seattle, WA
Artisan Tile Northwest Annual Tile Festival October 1
Pioneer Hall Seattle, WA
  
Origami Tiles
 
City People Garden Art Show September 10-October 9
4218 E. Madison, Seattle, WA
  
Madison Park Art Walk September 9
Visit me at: Martha Harris Flowers and Gifts
4218 E. Madison Seattle, WA
6-9 pm reception at Starbucks
 
Large Vases
Edmonds Artist Studio Tour September 17 & 18
110 4th Ave N., Edmonds, WA
Semantics Gallery 10 am-5 pm
Art Stop Gallery's Batter Bowl Show Opened January 20
Tacoma, WA
Juror's Choice Award for Most Functional Batter Bowl
ATNW Tile Show: Literary February 24-April 12
Handforth Gallery Tacoma Library
First Prize: Legends of Crows and Ravens
Art Stop Gallery's Arfs and Craft Show Opens April 21
Tacoma, WA
15th Annual Benefit for Prison Pet Partnership Program
  
Food and Water Bowls
Crow Valley Pottery Garden Art Show June 24-July 5
Orcas Island, WA
  
Bird Spas Tree necklace Finial
Bassetti Crooked Arbor Gardens' Garden Art Show opens June 25
Woodinville, Wa
 
Garden Pool Planter Pod
Crow Valley Pottery Potter's Festival July 15-31
Orcas Island, WA
  
Bowls
Originally, Primitiva Pottery and Tile, started by Maria Root, offered handmade planters, dinnerware, and decorative containers. Whimsy and rich texture adorned her work though function remained essential.
Maria's signature derives from organic forms that offer imperfect 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
2010 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
 Bassetti Crooked Arbor Gardens, Garden Art Show, Woodinville, WA June 26-27
 Crow Valley Potters' Festival, Orcas Island, WA 98245 July 16, 2010
 Washington Arboretum Foundation, Art in the Park, Seattle, WA 98112 Aug. 12
 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
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