Miguel Ruiz Jiménez has devoted a lifetime to ceramics and pottery. Since the age of seven he has worked to master and perfect this consummate craft, researching new form and motifs, pioneering new techniques in an uncompromising medium, matching skillto substance, mink to matter.

Along the way he has left a memorable series of popular ceramics, pottery, "cuerda seca", clay objects and, in particular, the Golden Pottery decribed cataligue.

Another facet of his ceramics is his work as a sculptor, the creator of clay murals such as the one commissioned by the Spanish Embassy in Algiers, and pieces cast in bronze like the monument gracing the Granada Park in Coral Gables (Florida).

In 1991 he undergoes the covering of the Tower of the Andalusian Pavillion in Secille's Universal Expo 92. The covering consists of a giant puzzleof glazed earthenware plates of a complex angularity, curbature and other characteristics.

1991 was also the year in which his design of the "Vaso de las Granadas" won the competition for representing the province of Granada in Expo-92.

At the request of the Autonomous Regional Government of Andalusia he has made a reproduction of the "Vaso de las Gacelas", following step by step its present condition. This work will be shown at the Expo-92.

In 1992 he also agreed to undego a series of sculputures -in glazed earthernware and other materials- in monumental sizes such as eight and ten metres high which will be placed in the Pavillion of Plastics Arts designed and directed by the author.

Miguel Ruiz Jiménez has also shown in individual and collective exhibitions such as Granada (1978), Puente Romano, Marbella (Septmber 1987), Zarauz (June 1987), the Ateneo, Orense (October 1987), Valladolid (January 1988), the Ixtasso Gallery, Zaragoza (January 1988), Galerías San Vicente (April 1989), San Lorenzo del Escorial (December 1988), Galeria de la Caja Postal, Badajoz (1988), Coral Glabes, Florida (December 1987), Aquetaine (1988), West Germany (1988), his work has seved as the historial television serial on Peter I (the Cruel).

He is currently wording to meet a tight-paked exhibitions schedule over the next few years, while developing new lines of creative ceramics and sculptures which will appear shortly.