Cleveland-based artist Asya Palatova creates porcelain slip-cast dishes that invite touch and quiet reflection. Each piece is handcrafted in her studio using a custom-formulated porcelain slip—light yet strong, with a luminous surface that holds the memory of the maker’s hand.

What began as a hobby has become a practice: a space of creative renewal shaped by craftsmanship, intuition, and deep respect for process. Asya also formulates her own food-safe glazes, layering subtle tones that shift like distant landscapes—seascapes, dunes, horizons at dusk. No two pieces are alike.

What starts as liquid clay becomes something singular. As the kiln transforms glaze into motion and surface into story, unexpected textures emerge—misty lines, soft edges where color pools. Even bowls cast from the same mold reveal their own quiet individuality.

Rooted in memory, her work draws inspiration from summers at her grandmother’s country cottage—lush gardens, apple trees, linen tablecloths, and the slow unfolding of shared meals. The warmth of those moments lives on in every piece.

Gleena dishes are made to be used—to be held, shared, and lived with. They offer a pause. A return to simplicity. A way to savor the beauty tucked inside the everyday.

Asya holds an MFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design (2004). After fourteen years in Rhode Island, she returned to Cleveland to be near family and now works from a quiet studio in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

Visitors are welcome by appointment. To browse available pieces, please email Asya. The studio is located at 3619 Walton Ave, just minutes from the Tremont and Ohio City neighborhoods.

Currently not accepting wholesale or custom orders.