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Natascha Rieter, born in Roermond (1948), has lived in Bunde since 2020, where she has her gallery and studio in a former butcher's shop. Before that, from 1988, she lived in the hamlet of Groot Welsden, where she and her husband Siegfried Gorinskat (also a ceramist, who passed away in 2006) had their studios in a typical half-timbered farmhouse. Both artists enjoy great renown in the art world for their ceramic work. In 1989 they opened Ceramic Gallery "Groot Welsden" — and not without 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 this training she worked for two years in a ceramic studio in Switzerland (1971–1972). From 1972 to 1975 she studied ceramics at the ceramic "Fachschule" in Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany. She then came to Nijswiller (South Limburg), where she established herself as a ceramicist (1976–1988). She exhibited in many galleries, among others in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Japan.

The themes that play a role 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, and fires at stoneware temperature.

In making her clay paintings, she combines ceramics with painting techniques and a wooden panel.

After her husband passed away, she took up painting, etching and screen printing again, which had always been her passion.

**Side activities**: Ceramics teacher at Vrije Academie Maastricht, previously at Kumulus, Centre for the Arts, in Maastricht, since 1978.
Art gallery in Bunde since 2021.