Years ago, if you had told Tripti that she would be a full-time potter she wouldn’t have believed you. Growing up in India, Tripti learned various arts while completing her PhD. in Applied Mathematics. Her parents taught her to keep her mind open to both the arts and the sciences, so while studying she also obtained a Bachelor’s degree Indian classical dance. At the end of her PhD. thesis she met her husband at an international fluid dynamics conference; a year later they got married and moved to America to start their lives together. Tripti started to learn pottery as a hobby and it was a way to spend time aside from being a mother of a two-year-old girl, which was a full-time job in itself. She fell in love with the art instantly, and over time she began to make pots with her own style. In 2007, the family took a trip to China and it was in that trip where she discovered two of her passions in pottery: the teapot and the double wall form. She discovered the latter in the Seoul, South Korea airport while awaiting a connecting flight. The fascination with double wall pots and the exposure to traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony inspire her to make double wall Teapots.
Once Tripti finishes the form of a pot, she then decides the chosen surface decoration, whether it will be Henna or Madhubani (from the state of Bihar), Warli (from the state of Maharashtra), or Mandaney (from the state of MP and UP), etc. Henna is a form of body art, which is associated with celebrations. Warli and Madhubani are different forms of wall art, where tribal people uses the walls to showcase their daily lives and rituals. Lastly, Mandaney is a form of floor art used during festivals, oftentimes to tell various stories about the occasion.
Recently her pots are inspired by nature. The work is always evolving and she is having fun with creating new forms.
