About MKS The Artist

The happiest part of my artistic journey is this:
most of the materials I use were once called trash.

Foam boards become canvases.
Discarded wood becomes tables and clocks.
Paper becomes clay.
And clay becomes monumental sculptural vases.

Where others see waste, I see potential waiting to be shaped.

Twenty years ago, I visited a pottery studio for the first time. I loved pottery, but I had never seen how it was truly made. I imagined machines doing the work.

Instead, I saw hands shaping earth into form.

At that time, becoming an artisan felt impossible. I was completing my Doctor of Pharmacy degree and preparing for a career in the pharmaceutical industry. Life became busy — but the desire to create never left me.

I had no kiln.
No wheel.
No formal training.

So I began experimenting.

Commercial air-dry clay were expensive and limited me to small pieces. I wanted scale. I wanted presence. I wanted large sculptural floor vases.

Through years of trial and error, I developed my own air-dry clay formula — strong enough for larger forms, durable enough to last.

Air-dry clay has many challenges: shrinking, cracking, structural weakness. Over time, I learned how to engineer my forms to overcome these limits.

Each vase is hand-built. After shaping the structure, I carefully sand and refine every detail. To achieve the luminous finish that many mistake for glass, I apply layers of epoxy resin — transforming the surface into something unexpected.

People often ask:

“How do you create these without a kiln or a wheel?”

The simple answer is: hard work.

The deeper answer is patience, persistence, and faith.

I am self-taught in clay, resin, and material experimentation. Every vase I create is one-of-a-kind — no molds, no mass production.

I am deeply grateful to the Creator who formed us from clay and allowed me to find peace in shaping it.

This work is not just about making objects.
It is about transforming limitations into possibility.