Rose Quintana comes from Barcelona and has been a potter for 20 years. She has studied at both the School of Arts in Barcelona, Spain, and the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Her works primarily use stoneware clay. She custom mixes glazes of many colors and usually employs techniques of both wheelthrowing and handbuilding in the creation of her pieces. Her signature element, used frequently, is a beautiful, organic, winding, pulled handle. She is also creating a new line of mosaics with themes drawn from landscapes and inspired by nature. Utilizing both hand-made tiles and hand sculpted pieces that are enhanced with bright glazes the scenes create a narrative that evokes feelings, desires, memories and dreams
Currently Rose is producing pieces and teaching full time at Clayworks, where she is the owner, in Miami Beach.

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Rochelle Relyea an original co-founder of Clayworks now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She was raised in and around Toronto, Canada. Sculpture classes during a long stay in Santiago Chile began her current ceramics career. Wheelthrowing lessons with Rose Quintana lead to their partnership in 1995 and soon Clayworks was born. With her attention to detail and love of decorative painting Rochelle developed a passion for glazing ceramics. The combination of Rose's wheelthrown pieces and Rochelle's glazing became Garden Ware.