Maiyan Ben Yona

Maiyan specializes in porcelain work, creating both decorative and practical ceramicware.

All products are handmade using a variety of techniques: potter's wheel, slip casting, and surface work. The products are hand decorated with a range of different patterns and designs inspired from different cultures, together they create a new language. These decorations are painted on coloured utensils using a variety of bright and soft colours that blend together creating an array of unique patterns.

The colours and patterns are painted on a series of products characterised by clean and precise lines blending in with each other and providing a stage for the colours and patterns.  All these together create a collection enabling a variety of endless combinations and options.

By using my special painting technique, I create ceramic ware and pottery that has gentle surfaced textures, both matt and glossy and this brings depth and uniqueness to the products.

All ceramic ware and pottery are non-toxic, dishwasher safe, and food-safe, yet delicate and should be used with care. 

Maiyan was born in Israel and grew up in Galilee in the northern part of the country surrounded by natures green tranquility.

Later in life, I moved to the desert in the south, a life of serenity surrounded by endless spaces.

Today I live in Jaffa and work in my studio in the south Tel-Aviv industrial area.