Reflection/ Mindfulness/embrace

My name is Diana, I am the craftswoman behind Diana Roldan Ceramics. Based in New York, the develop of my wares from start to finish are done out of my home studio. Clay as a medium and the ceramic process has always spoken to me the most. It has allowed me to speak through my hands about whats hard for me to express with words.   
With a combination of informal training, ceramic studio internships, and being self taught I had decided in 2019  to turn my life long passion into a career. Pursuing ceramics as a full-time job, I aspire to share my creations which are pieces of me and are dear to my heart with love, honor and respect out to the world.  
 I aim to create home decor and functional pottery that allow mindfulness of  being in the moment, to reflect on ones life and to embrace giving ones self, self care. With an appreciation for narrative imagery and decorative details created through embossing and hand sculpting. My wares are adorn with a combination of inlayed embossings and three-dimensional sculpted sprigged elements that convey joy, life, traditions, self empowerment, our human connection to nature and admiration for the moon. 
My practice consists of hand building techniques that require the use of  slab building, coiling, sculpting, carving, hand modeling methods of pinching and altering and with the use of sprig and molds.  These methods highlight my I love for texture and relief style applications.  My current glazing process is a combination of underglaze washes of inlaying, watercolor  style layering applications and the use of mid range, lead free, food safe glazes. Though my production method of practice consists of developing multiples of items created in batch sets each hand crafted ware is  unique and stands alone.
Being the sole creator of production the process from the beginnings of developing to the finished completed collection is  the process is slow. I am the maker, the kiln tech, the marketing department and packaging personal. All is done  in and out of  my home studio in Long Island, NY.
Diana Roldan Ceramics is a growing small female owned business that focuses in creating quality work that has hours of poured love, honor and respect. Follow along with my process on my IG, TikTok  and Pinterest accounts under handle name @DianaRoldan_Ceramics. Sign up below for the newsletter to be in the loop and the first to know when new releases will drop in my online shop.