Mitra had a career in economics until she took a pottery class in her late twenties and realized that this is what she needed to do. She earned a diploma in Ceramic Design at the University of Arts, in London UK, followed by her BFA from Emily Carr University in 2021. In 2018 she was awarded a NorthWest Ceramic Foundation scholarship to take a month-long workshop at Medalta, in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Mitra uses the pottery wheel to make functional ware, but is clearly fond of creating forms using various hand-building techniques. She used the brief time available to show us a series of steps in her process. We watched her adding coils to a form which she started from its top rim and grew it up to its base. 

Clive tells us that she is lucky enough to have rented the Mount Pleasant studio of much-loved and missed potter Charmian Johnson. Her website gives details of workshops she offers there. I believe the studio is open to visitors this coming weekend.