Maria Diletta Rondoni is an Italian artist based in Umbria, Italy. After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia in 2012-majoring in painting–her artistic research explored possibilities from different materials, such as ceramic, metalworking, and glass. She focused her interest on clay taking classes in the ceramic traditional town of Deruta where she learned ancient techniques such as Etruscan bucchero, terra sigillata, and Maiolica. In 2017 she studied porcelain techniques at the FACC-Faenza Art Ceramic Center, Faenza, Italy; In 2016 she set up her own ceramic studio where she developed her ceramic practice. Her artworks belong to private collections, in Italy and abroad.

My works come to life through an anaphoric process of composing different elements that absorbs me in a slow creative flow. I truly like to manipulate clay and lose myself taking care of details. I use few tools, sometimes just the tip of my fingers with a pinch and coil technique. I love to create my own palette of pigmented clays, thinking of my work as a three-dimensional painting.

I am inspired by the metamorphosis and permutation of nature, its movements, and changes, its strength and fragility, to give voice to its sensual power as the origin of life. My aim is to create a sort of imaginary, fantastic, and corporeal herbarium.

*From the artist