About Figtree Clay
Each porcelain piece is unique and handcrafted with love & care by Samantha in New York City.
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Porcelain serves as the background for all of my pieces. I love how delicate and stubborn it is to work with. Its qualities have taught me to slow down. I hand build a variety of vessels; lanterns, slab-pots, dishes, ornaments, jewelry pendants. I decorate my pieces with underglazes, primarily red and blue, but more recently I've been experimenting with brown and green underglazes, too. I'm also quite fond of decorating porcelain with metallic lusters. I've heard that mixing gold and silver together is a faux pas, but that doesn't change the fact that it's my favorite color combination of all time. I also think brown and black are a perfect match.
Biography
Samantha is a porcelain ceramicist that utilizes forms of sketching, painting, and fine line drawing into her delicate works. She found her passion for ceramics in 2017 while enrolled in a sculpture class at Suffolk County Community College. After graduating from community college in 2019, she enrolled at Stony Brook University as an English major with a minor in creative writing. Literary genres such as poetry, short stories, novels, and screenwriting all act as translatory vehicles for her writing.
While exploring ceramics at a local art studio on Long Island during her undergraduate education, Samantha began to integrate her curiosity for storytelling with the use of clay forms.
Today, she pursues a graduate degree in art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Samantha is the acting fellow of the Teachers College ceramics studio where she continues to tell stories through her favorite protagonist yet. Clay.
