Primitiva Pottery and Tile

 

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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New Work Featured for 2010

  

                      Bird Pods                         Shells

       
              Finials                             Planter Totems
 
Bird Spas 
Garden Pools
 

 

 
2010 Show Schedule 

 

January 21             Batter Bowls Show  
                              Artstop Gallery
                              Tacoma, WA
 
April 15-17            Arfs and Crafts Show & Auction
                             Artstop Gallery
                             Tacoma, WA
                 
May 20-June 18     The Enchanted Garden (solo show)
                                     Semantics Gallery
                              Edmonds, WA
 
June 25-July 6      Taking Root in the Garden (featured artist)
                              Crow Valley Pottery
                              Orcas Island, WA
 
June 26 & 27          Garden Art Show
                              Bassetti Crooked Arbor Gardens
                              Woodinville, WA
 
July 16-August 1     Potters' Festival
                              Crow Valley Pottery
                              Orcas Island, WA
 
 July 31                  Made in Montlake
                              Montlake Community Center
                              Seattle, WA
 
October 2              5th Annual Tile Festival
                             Artisan Tile Northwest 
                             Seattle, WA     
 
 
 How to Purchase or Commission Work
I welcome commissions or direct purchase from my studio or work represented on my website. E-mail me at mariaroot@aol.com.  Currently, my work is available for viewing or purchase at the following galleries, stores, and showrooms.
 Crow Valley Pottery, Eastsound, Washington  (360) 376-4260
Garden Smiles, Waterville, Ohio  (800) 225-1178
Artstop Tacoma, WA (253) 274-1630
Semantics Gallery, Edmonds, WA ((425) 776-3176
Bassetti Crooked Arbor Gardens, Woodinville, Washington (425) 788-6767
Copper Vine, Seattle, Washington (206)  323-0770
Sue Swerdlow Gallery,  Kapa'au, Hawaii (808) 889-0002
 Roosevelt Art Tile, Seattle, WA (206)  523-3032

 Contact Information: mariaroot@aol.com; (206) 328-8076

 

© 2010 Maria P. P. Root, all rights reserved.
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