Category - Ceramics
Artist - Margalida Escalas
Size - (24 x 8 x 6 cm.)
High temperature refractory material
 
Margalida Escales . Born in 1953 in Santanyí (Mallorca). She has studied Art in Palma, Gerona, Sargadelos (Lugo) and in Faenza (Italy). She discovered ceramics in 1975 and since then she has not stopped working with clay in her Pòrtol workshop. In a functional one, based on history and traditions. After her self-taught experience and her participation in various courses and seminars in Cambridge, Faenza, Palma and technique. Thanks to continuous research Escales has reached the point where she is now: sculpture with clay as raw material. Her works preserve the proportions of traditional ceramics, but adapted to abstract forms. Since she exhibited for the first time in 1987 in the galleries Paco (Pollensa) and Quatre Gats (Palma), her resume has been expanding with the organization of exhibitions in various galleries in Mallorca, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Seville, Zurich and Albino. She has also exhibited in three editions of Artexpo (Barcelona), in Sa Quartera (Inca) and the Museum Cerámica y Artes Sumptuarias González Martí.