Amelia Johannsen is a self-taught ceramic artist striving to explore her creative limits with clay while maintaining a grounded practice based on functionality and craft. Ceramics has played an integral part in Amelia’s life ever since she started playing with clay as a child. It was the one activity she returned to time and time again, even while pursuing more traditional career paths.

Originally from Portland, OR, Amelia merges her Pacific Northwest roots with the colorful, eclectic influences of Barcelona, Spain where she lives and works since 2005. Amelia’s artwork celebrates the vitality and flow in feminine energy—venerating curvaceous female forms and fertility symbols—as well as her love for the great outdoors.