Asha Baste is an architect, a versatile ceramic artist, and an author. After graduating from Pratt Institute in New York in 1969, she worked in New York and London before returning to India, where she had an architecture practice spanning over five decades in Mumbai and Pune.
From 2005, her love for ceramics was rekindled. Since then, she has worked with mediums of earthenware, stoneware and Porcelain, crafting various objects, lampshades, jewellery, bowls, vases, and sculptures. She has participated in exhibitions in Mumbai, Pune, and Singapore.
Through her journey of life as a wife, mother, architect, and potter, she has consistently sought deeper meaning in everyday life. Through her study of Dnyaneshwari with her gurus, she has come to understand the connection between the mud pot and our mortal body. She has come to see that pottery is not only about shaping the clay but is about being shaped.