Our Teachers

Adele Williams

Experienced London-based potter teaching wheel and hand-building at Clay Collective and Clay Time, driven by experimentation.

Alessandro Strano

Sicilian master wheel thrower with 30+ years' experience and founder of Studio MUD, an intercultural ceramics hub in Palermo.

Ana Drucker

Mexico City-born multidisciplinary artist pushing ceramics, glass and recycled materials beyond predictable outcomes — co-founder of the Barcelona artist-run space SSUAVE.

Anas Rifi-Zinati

Barcelona-based ceramic designer, founder of Espai Alfar, specialising in large-format throwing and slip mould production.

Angelica Tulimiero

Italian ceramic artist creating sculptural organic forms with hand-building, self-made glazes and wood-firing techniques.

Anna Basile

Turin-based founder of Studio Delta Pottery, expert in high-temperature glazes, wild clays and bespoke restaurant tableware.

Chiara Zoppei

Milan ceramicist specialised in wheel work and co-founder of Fuoco Blu, promoting ceramics and connection through manual work.

Clara Holt

Italian artist and Fuoco Blu co-founder focused on ceramic decoration and storytelling inspired by mythology and folk tradition.

Ebony Russell

Award-winning Australian artist who pipes porcelain into gravity-defying sculptures where decoration becomes structure.

Esther Palmer

London ceramicist and RCA graduate making wheel-thrown functional pottery and sculptural work exploring ritual and landscape.

Eva Corominas Solano

Barcelona-based ceramicist and teacher whose nature-inspired work explores repetition, duality and ambivalence.

Joan Carreras

Barcelona-born ceramicist, baker and industrial designer exploring where clay, design and craft meet, collaborator of Xavier Mañosa and brands such as Hermès and Alessi.

José María Mariscal

Catalan master potter from La Bisbal d'Empordà and member of the International Academy of Ceramics, internationally recognised for refined porcelain forms and pioneering crystalline glazes.

Joy Elsa Hänggi

Bern-based ceramic artist blending traditional techniques with contemporary forms that question utility versus art.

Lisa Kosak

French-Belgian founder of Helka ceramics in Berlin, crafting dinnerware and teaching hundreds of students to play with clay.

Luca della Maddalena

Turin ceramicist and founder of Tom Soyler Studio, teaching at IED Turin and exploring metallic lustres and third firing.

Lucia Ocejo

Luigi Pullini

Italian potter and researcher self-sourcing clays and glazes, rooted in wood and soda firing and independent ceramic practice.

Maria Roy

Catalan artist and ceramicist whose research-driven practice explores the stories held within the soil — wild clay, material research and place-based ceramics.

Marta Vino

Italian ceramist in Turin teaching wheel and glaze chemistry, exploring wood firing and wild materials with an intimate approach.

Massimo Pavan

Self-taught Rotterdam ceramist exploring basic geometric forms through repetition and scale in stoneware and porcelain.

Mati Cini

Salemi Ceramics' lead ceramicist with 10 years' experience, known for cobalt blue stoneware and wild clay and ash glaze research.

Michelle Calvo

Mexican-born founder of Minx Factory in Barcelona, making bold, playful ceramics and teaching alongside her partner Borneo.

Míriam Seguí Carbonell

Catalan ceramist from La Bisbal blending traditional wheel work with contemporary approaches, wood-firing stoneware at 1300ВєC.

Monica Chavarria

Barcelona sculptor from a family of artists — Fine Arts graduate and long-time Escola Massana teacher of modelling, casting and volume, working from figuration in terracotta, stone, iron and more.

Morela Cañas

Venezuelan ceramist and mould-making expert whose practice weaves material exploration, storytelling and transformation.

Nikolas Iturralde

Ceramic artist blending Latin American iconography, ornament and typography in sculptures, vases and tiles.

Vanesa Lamadrid

Argentinian jewellery maker in Barcelona teaching metal and lost-wax casting, guiding students toward a personal artistic voice.