About the Artist
Tania Misra
Tania Misra is an artist whose work emerges from a deep connection to earth, stillness, and the meditative rhythm of working on the wheel. Trained as an architect and urban designer, she spent years understanding how space shapes emotion, first through cities and built environments, and later through clay.
Her practice moves across wheel-thrown forms, sculpture, painting, and nature-inspired works shaped through grounding and observation. Influenced by spirituality and the changing natural world, the work moves between material, reflection, and form.
FEATURED WORK
Origins in Architecture & Form
Before clay entered her life, Tania was designing spaces: townships in India, slum redevelopment projects in Dharavi, Mumbai, and urban initiatives in the favelas of Rocinha, Brazil. Her work as an urban designer is centred around the emotional relationship between space and community.
In 2011, her practice began to shift inward. Alongside becoming a new mother, she also entered a deeper spiritual journey rooted in meditation, Reiki, healing, and energy work. Around this time, she began working with clay.
The wheel quickly became more than a process. Its anticlockwise motion and grounding presence gradually became connected to stillness. Working with earth by hand began to shape both her artistic language and her spiritual practice.
That same year, she began her formal ceramic training at NAFA (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts) in Singapore under master potter Lim Kim Hui. She later travelled to Japan to study the traditional art of porcelain flower-making at the Tokyo DECO Clay Academy, followed by further studies in ceramic casting under Sasha Wardell in France.
These experiences gradually shaped an artist who brings together architectural rigour, sculptural sensitivity, and spiritual depth within the work.
2011
Formal ceramic training
Begins at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts under master potter Lim Kim Hui
2011
Porcelain flower-making
Studies the intricate traditional art at the Tokyo DECO Clay Academy
2018
Casting under Sasha Wardell
Studies casting with the celebrated ceramicist Sasha Wardell
Now
An independent practice
Working across Singapore, India and Dubai. Always becoming.
The Meditative Language of Making
Tania’s practice is deeply informed by her long-standing spiritual connection to Quan Yin, the Earth Mother, a figure of compassion, nurturing, and protection within her personal philosophy.
Lotus forms, meditative repetition, and references to the natural world appear throughout the work. Flowers, leaves, birds, corals, aquatic life, and landscapes recur not simply as aesthetic motifs, but as reflections on fragility, healing, and the changing relationship between humanity and nature.
Themes surrounding environmental destruction, bleaching corals, disappearing ecosystems, and deforestation have increasingly shaped the direction of the work over time.
For Tania, nature exists both as inspiration and as a teacher. The work continues to return to the earth: its textures, colours, silences, and rhythms.
FROM THE STUDIO
FROM THE STUDIO
On Colour, Light & Landscape
Much of the palette is drawn from flowers, water, stone, landscapes, and the changing colours of the natural world.
Colour is often used sparingly. Many works retain the rawness of clay itself, with restrained surfaces and minimal glaze that allow texture and material to remain present.
Travel across Singapore, India, Dubai, Japan, and Europe gradually expanded the visual language of the practice. Vast landscapes, Earthy tones and whites appear instinctively throughout the work. Desert terrains, shifting light, and quiet observations continue to shape the emotional atmosphere of the work.
Nature remains central, both spiritually and visually.
The Interior World of the Studio
The studio evolved through years of making and experimentation.
What first began as Tania Clay Studio in 2011, a women-led polymer clay studio in India, gradually grew into a larger practice rooted in community, healing, and shared learning. Alongside her spiritual practice, there was also a growing desire to create spaces that could financially support and empower underprivileged women.
In 2015, Padme Hum Studio Singapore emerged as a teaching and workshop space centred around pottery, grounding, and mental well-being. The studio became a place of reflection and learning, where making with clay was approached not only as a craft but also as a meditative and restorative process.
Years of experimentation with ceramics, materials, and form in Singapore gradually laid the foundation for the India studio that would later follow.
During the uncertainty of the COVID years, the practice transformed once again. The need to sustain the women working within the studio became the catalyst for reinvention. Padme Hum Studio India gradually evolved into a porcelain and ceramic-based studio, creating handcrafted works while continuing to nourish, employ, and support women through the act of making.
The philosophy of Padme Hum remains closely tied to the earth itself, the belief that beauty can emerge slowly from difficulty and patience.
Across Singapore, India, and Dubai, the studio became a place where process, conversation, spirituality, and material existed together.
India
Singapore
Dubai
Art as an Intimate Space of Reflection
For Tania, art has always been connected to her spirituality and calmness. In the midst of noise and movement, creating with her hands offered a sense of grounding and solace.
Working with clay continues to remain deeply meditative. Always becoming.
