Born in Verviers, Belgium, Pascale Zintzen grew up surrounded by objects, tools and manual processes. From an early age she was drawn to craft and to the capacity of the hands to transform matter. That curiosity led her to explore different disciplines before arriving definitively at ceramics: she studied Archaeology and Art History, trained in traditional upholstery, and always maintained a close relationship with manual trades.

After travelling through different countries, she settled permanently in Barcelona in 2016, a city from which she has developed her artistic practice and studio. Shortly afterwards she discovered ceramics almost by chance, thanks to classes a friend gave her as a gift. That experience marked a turning point. The artist recalls the moment as a revelation: working with clay brought her a profound sense of calm and an immediate need to continue creating. Since then, she admits, rarely more than forty-eight hours pass without shaping earth with her hands.

From that discovery emerged Oikos Estudio, an artistic project whose name derives from the Greek term oikos, understood as house, home or the space where life unfolds. The choice is not accidental: for Zintzen, the studio, family life and the creative process form part of the same vital continuity. Her practice unfolds between her studio in Barcelona and her house-studio in Baix Ebre, a rural landscape near the Ebro Delta where the artist finds the slower rhythm she needs to work.

In this environment, surrounded by countryside, olive trees and silence, domestic life and artistic creation coexist naturally. The studio is not a space separate from the world, but an extension of everyday dwelling.