About
The studio
Most of my pieces are wheel-thrown, with a smaller portion hand-built. The terracotta works and the planters shaped from my own mixed clays are fired once, at bisque temperature. For outdoor use - or depending on the glaze - I fire them at high temperature as well, making them frost-resistant. Certain vessels can be made to order, tailored to specific functions. The cups, mugs, small bowls, and plates intended for coffee and dining are fired at high temperature, at a minimum of 1200 °C. Every piece is finished with a safe, non-toxic glaze.
I also work with heavily grogged, coarse clay. Although this material is not traditionally considered suitable for wheel-throwing, its raw surface texture and decorative potential are especially exciting to me.
Another important influence is the world of early African water-carrying vessels. Their decorative elements and incised drawings are among the most natural abstract, form-following lines I have ever encountered in the history of art.
Másik fontos hatás számomra a korai évszázadokból fennmaradt afrikai vízhordó edények világa. Díszítőelemeik és karcolt rajzaik a legtermészetesebb absztrakt formakövető vonalak, amivel a művészet történetében valaha találkoztam.
POT-AGORA
The story of POT-AGORA
With a university degree in fine arts, I began my path as a painter, but decades ago I was swept away by the pull of earth and clay. I earned my ceramic craft qualification at the Jaschik Álmos Art Vocational School and Technical Institute, where I also began exploring both the theoretical and practical aspects of glasswork. The ceramic studio found its permanent home only a few years ago, in the small village of Salföld, nestled in the Káli Basin. I can hardly imagine a more fitting place: the endlessly varied rock formations and the „Stone Sea" itself; the bramble thickets; the red and yellow clays of the soil - all of them inspire me more deeply now than any city ever could. Pot – agora - an English–Greek compound meaning "POT market" — holds, for me, the more intricate forms hidden within everyday simplicity.