Black-and-white photograph of a woman with curly hair hand building a large pottery vase outdoors, with a background of trees and sky.

Featured Artwork

Abstract ceramic sculpture with flowing, curvilinear forms displayed on a textured pedestal.

Salta

Modern ceramic sculpture with abstract, flowing shapes displayed on a white pedestal.

Coraje

A beige ceramic vase with ruffled edges on a speckled white pedestal.

Black and white photo of a woman with dark hair hand building a large decorative ceramic vase with abstract, flowing cutouts, partially obscuring her face.

Daniela Romero (b. 1995) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Quito, Ecuador, shaped by six years in Sydney, Australia, and now based in Medellín, Colombia. Her practice spans ceramics, painting, and sculpture — unified by a single, relentless obsession: life itself. Its cycles, its invisible forces, the way nature encodes what language cannot reach.

Daniela came to art through a liberal arts education that cracked something open — drawing, oils, acrylics, clay. Each medium pointed to the same territory. She deepened her craft inside a professional ceramics studio in Sydney, building the technical foundation that now allows her to attempt the forms no one told her were possible. She is largely self-taught in the ways that count.

For ten years, Daniela has pushed her work toward what makes her most uncomfortable — and stayed there. Her sculptures are organic, ambitious, and defiant of gravity: ruffled forms that seem to move, surfaces that reward a long, close look. Inspired by the natural world — the sea, animal forms, the behavior of the earth itself — she works with clay because clay is the earth. To push it past its limits is to understand your own.