Aastha is a ceramic artist and the founder of Mitti & Mind, a pottery studio based in Gurgaon. She works primarily with clay, creating small-batch functional and decorative pieces, and also conducts hands-on workshops that introduce people to the process of working with ceramics.
Clay entered Aastha’s life as a grounding practice and gradually became the medium through which she built Mitti & Mind. Her work is wheel-thrown and hand-finished, shaped slowly through throwing, trimming, drying, multiple firings, and glazing, often taking days or weeks for a single piece to be complete. She approaches each form intuitively, allowing the material to guide the final shape rather than forcing a fixed outcome. Nature plays a steady role in her process, influencing her use of organic forms, muted palettes, and subtle surface textures. Aastha works in small batches, focusing on presence, patience, and respect for the material, with each piece made to be used, lived with, and owned by one person at a time.
