Maria Root started Primitiva Pottery and Tile as a pottery that offered 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

2010 Show Schedule  January 21              Batter Bowls Show                               Artstop Gallery                               Tacoma, Wa May 20-June 18     Solo Show: Perspectives                               Semantics Gallery                                Edmonds, WA June 25-July 24     Root of the Garden                                 Crow Valley Pottery                               Orcas Island, WA October                 Artisan Tile NorthWest                              Annual Tile Festival                               Seattle, WA

New Work Featured for 2010    Finials Bird Pods Garden Pools Moon Flower Totems  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 Bassetti 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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