ABOUT
One project, a lifetime
Eguzkiñe Egaña Corta
BEHIND POTTO POTTERY
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Studies
With a degree in Marketing and Advertising, Eguzkiñe complements her career with studies in Photography and Graphic Design. Subsequently, he continued to expand his training and knowledge with courses related to web design, which defined the field of work that he has developed for 20 years.
Balancing the scales
In 2009, a vocational turning point occurred in his life. Saturated with designing digitally, she is more interested in handmade graphic processes; she takes painting and mixed techniques courses with Maite Unzurrunzaga, watercolor with Juan Carlos Cardesin, and participates in illustration seminars with Javier Zabala. Later he took intensive monographic courses in silkscreen and intaglio engraving at the Centro de enseñanzas artesanales de Deba, directed by Nerea López Lanzeta and Juan Luis Baroja Collet respectively.
Re-encounter with ceramics
In 2016, she took a potter’s wheel workshop, finding the art of ceramics a completely addictive activity. From then on, he entered the Artezaleak School in Zarautz to study other clay forming techniques; pinching, slabs, churros, sculpture and enameling techniques. She has also taken courses on ceramic illustration with Xabier Monsalvatje, glazes and decorative techniques with Ana Felipe Royo, molds with Carlos Martínez and improvement of the potter’s wheel with Ramon Fort.
Exhibitions
Between 2010 and 2011 he participated in several poster contests, winning several awards during those two years. In the same year, he presented his first painting exhibition in Torre Luzea. Years later he held group exhibitions of ceramics in Ebro Etxea and Villa Munda in Zarautz and in 2022 he repeated in Luzea Tower with an exhibition dedicated to ceramics and illustration.
Digital and Artisanal
She currently divides his time between Otzarreta Think and Make, a graphic design company where he has worked since 2002, and the Artezaleak ceramic workshop, where he works teaching classes to people who want to experiment with clay, slips and glazes.
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How did
Potto Pottery come about?
“Potto Pottery is a personal project that arose from my need to get back to creating and shaping things with my hands.
My hands and mind have a great time, engaged in an activity that is both relaxing and stimulating.”
How we
work
“Me gustan los acabados con aspecto artesanal como bordes irregulares, piezas asimétricas e imperfectas, características que se consiguen con técnicas como el pellizco japonés o los churros. Con el torno es más difícil obtener estos acabados por su acción giratoria, lo que le confiere a las piezas simetría y un aspecto más liso.”
“When it comes to drawing, I like uneven lines and shapes. I try to avoid drawings with realistic proportions, but without meaning to, I often end up doing just that, and it creates an internal struggle, because I like imperfection. Overcoming that resistance, letting things flow, and accepting the results is a constant learning process.”
LEARNING EVERY DAY
EGUN GUZTIAK IKASTEN
This has just begun
“In the world of ceramics and glazes, there are endless combinations, and the results can be surprising and incredibly diverse. You’re always experimenting and learning something new every day.”
