Marianela Borsten Pottery

In the field of Ceramic Artistry Marianela Borsten has been an unassuming, yet powerful voice for her craft. Using deliberate but delicate lines and evocative images, Nela gently draws the viewer into her realm of understanding and meaning and makes a statement about the forces of nature at work in art.

Marianela prepared for her career in her home country of Venezuela with the discipline of working in the family graphic arts and advertising business. This experience not only provided a strong foundation in visual communications, but it challenged her to seek a balance between the artistic and functional ideals that would eventually surface in her work as a full time clay artist.

Having committed herself to Ceramics in 1990, her growing success as a potter and skill at the wheel encouraged Marianela to found her own pottery studio, MariArte. Two years later it was the MariArte Studio that brought to Marianela her first significant honors and saw her placing permanent exhibitions in prestigious galleries in Caracas, and later in the gift shop exhibition space of the Contemporary Arts Museum also in Caracas. The MariArte Studio also realized certain financial stability with the support of patrons who commissioned several custom gift works for members of the executive and administrative staff at the military hospital in Venezuela.

Following seven successful years at the MariArte Studio, and partly in response to a personal tuning point in her life, Marianela Borsten relocated to South Florida. The transition has proved to demonstrate the resiliency of Ms. Borsten's art.
Recently founded her new studio in South Miami where she currently creates a whole new approach towards the function of art in our daily lives.