My occupation is artistic ceramics, or – to be more precise - ceramic painting. I am interested in problems related to painting rather than sculpture, and mostly in ceramics. What I do can be divided into a few areas, one of them being bottles. They come the closest to the very idea of ceramics. Due to their size, they are not used for purely practical purposes but mostly for decoration.
As regards painting, I make compositions of chamotte plates, small mosaic pieces or boxes into which I pour the content loose or, if the composition is to be hung on the wall, I glue, tie it and hang it on the wall.
Porcelain is the finest material, very difficult to work in, but also rewarding and enjoyable to look at. Unlike my colourful compositions, porcelain makes me combine and economise on means of expression. I allow porcelain to speak for itself. I try to show its lightness, transparency, delicacy.
In my quests, I also remember about interiors. It is for them that furniture screens, cabinets and pateras – in which tiles, openwork or mosaics are used as decorative features - are made in my husband’s studio. All the compositions are made only from old wood and using antique joinery techniques.
‘Szukam ciszy, patrzę w wodę’ (I am looking for tranquility, looking into the water) is the title of an exhibition originating in my neighbourhood, my house amid fields, the splashing of water in ponds, the croaking of frogs, a new gift from nature every day – in a new light, a new colour of the sky and land.
You are most welcome to visit the exhibition. Perhaps part of my nature will become yours…