Profile

Born in Brazil and now based in the United Kingdom, Melina Padrón brings a cross-cultural perspective to her ceramic practice. Previously a lawyer, she came to clay through self-directed exploration, using the material as a means to think, reflect, and give form to inner experience.

Her work explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of identity and what it means to be human. Guided by intuition, she hand-builds sculptural forms that consider how we think, feel, and relate to the world around us. Her current interests include the workings of the mind—physiological, emotional, and psychoanalytical—and how these, together with one’s surroundings, shape self-understanding.

Her first complete body of work, Shaping Self, reflects this inquiry into human complexity and the search for wholeness. Though conceptually driven, her practice remains in an early and exploratory stage, open to the possibilities of material, memory, and thought.