Nico Grigore is a multidisciplinary artist born, raised and based in Bucharest. Fascinated by creativity in all its forms, she pursues a career in fashion photography before discovering the joy of working with clay in 2020. Persistent in her learning autonomy, she builds the simplest earthen kiln all by herself, and surrounded by nature and mountains, goes through continuous exploring, testing, failing and succeeding with textures, techniques and styles. And so is Studio Gitane being born: a project that honours the beauty, rawness and authenticity of life as it is.