An archive of one artist’s hands
Mina’s Art and Sculptures
Clay, terracotta, bronze, and oil paint — a lifetime of work, formed by hand in a small studio in Marbella.
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Clay, terracotta, bronze, and oil paint — a lifetime of work, formed by hand in a small studio in Marbella.
See the collectionNo. 01 — The artist
She shapes a face — a goat, a woman, a Buddha, a vessel that holds a single bloom — and then she sets it down and shapes another. Forty years of work that asks for very little, says very little, and yet does not ever leave the room it’s placed in.
No. 02 — The sculptures
Pieces that began as a lump on a wooden board — pinched, scored, smoothed, fired, sometimes painted, sometimes gilded, sometimes left in their raw earth tone.
No. 03 — Featured
Two profiles, no bodies. A single moment held in terracotta and paint — the idea of a kiss before anyone moves. The lips touch but do not press. The faces are drawn flat, painted later, kept just so.
No. 04 — The paintings
Made between the sculptures, often with the same hands that just left the clay. Faces, fish, forests — everything she has wanted to keep.
A note
“To the artist who shapes beauty — and my world. Thank you for everything, Mom.”
— her son
No. 05 — The studio
Mina works at a wooden table beside a window that gets the afternoon light. Most pieces begin as a single fist of clay — a head, a vessel, a curled animal. Some are kept; some are broken back down to start again.
There is no schedule. A piece sits for a week, sometimes a month, before she returns to it. The studio smells of slip and oil paint, and there are always lemons on the windowsill in winter.
Almost everything you see here lives in her home and the homes of her family. A handful have left to private collections. The rest she keeps.
No. 06 — Inquiries
Most works are not for sale. Some are. Write if a piece in this collection has stayed with you — or if you would like to commission something new in clay or paint.
hello@minasart.com