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Natascha Rieter, born in Roermond (1948), has lived since 1988 in Margraten, in the hamlet of Groot Welsden, where she and her husband Siegfried Gorinskat (also a ceramist, who passed away in 2006) established their studios in a typical half-timbered farmhouse. Both artists enjoy great renown in the art world for their ceramic works. In 1989 they opened Ceramic Gallery "Groot Welsden" — with great success. Natascha Rieter is an emotional and poetic artist for whom ceramics is the mirror of the soul.

Natascha studied monumental design, majoring in painting, at the City Academy in Maastricht (1967–1971). After her studies she worked for two years in a ceramic studio in Switzerland (1971–1972). From 1972 to 1975 she studied ceramics at the Ceramic Hochschule in Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany. She then moved to Nijswiller (South Limburg), where she established herself as a ceramist (1976–1988). She has exhibited in many galleries in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Japan. The themes in her work are nature and humanity: LIFE. She translates her feelings into ceramics — "Working with clay is for me the same as writing a poem."

Natascha Rieter makes functional ceramics, reliefs, small sculptures, modelled figures and clay paintings. She uses stoneware clay from Germany and porcelain from France. In her clay paintings she combines ceramics with painting techniques on wooden panels.

In recent years Natascha has been almost exclusively occupied with monumental commissions in applied art — wall reliefs in building lobbies, monumental sculpture groups, and private and corporate commissions.

Side activities: Ceramics teacher at Kumulus, Centre for the Arts, Maastricht since 1977. Gallery owner of Ceramic Gallery "Groot Welsden" since 1989.
