Manu Souza Ceramics

Porto, PORTUGAL

“Pottery is today, for Manu, the way she found to do storytelling.”

Manu is a graphic designer by profession, illustrator, and ceramist. Lived in different countries around the world, met different cultures and habits. She started in Brazil, changed continents, went to Sweden. From there she went to the other extreme side of the world, South Africa. Then back to Europe, Italy. She returned to Africa, lived in Senegal. Today she lives and has made Portugal her home.

The call of pottery happened when, the love of art in its purest essence, creating with hands, spoke louder than the 15 years of graphic works using digital media. This was the chosen way of expressing ideas, cultures, experiences lived in places with different ways and customs, creating art with bare hands.

Pottery is today, for Manu, the way she found to do storytelling. Making simple moments into special events! "Drinking and enjoying a coffee, is already a special event for me! Working with the clay, it is the upmost pleasure!"