Handbuilt Ceramic Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Dirk Dahl - I have been working as an artist much of my life always searching for ways of expression. I found ceramics in high school, I loved manipulating the clay into anything I could imagine. I liked the accidents, the randomness & the structuring of the elements into drama, emotion or the stimulation of thought. Clay became a very powerful medium for me, always exploring......

Elisaveta Sivas - IWe are Creator in the human body. aEURoeKnow thyself and you shall know the Universe and the Gods,aEUR is the Ancient Greek aphorism. A person who has realized that she is Creator creates a beautiful new world instead of the chaos and suffering which is created by the Ego-mind. Peace in every head and heart means peace on Earth. The role of the artist of the future is to heal the trauma of the anthropocene, discovered and exposed by the predecessors. Healed inside, a person is no longer isolated she feels oneness with the Universe and acquires antifragility. Deepening the philosophical ideas of cosmism and avatarism, I chose to be the conductor of the new spiritual Knowledge and through my art to help humanity to go through initiation into awareness, to choose a harmonious version of the future. Through my sculptures, I strive to give a person an incentive for a breakthrough, a flight to a new self. My style inherits the geometricity, abstract form and magical spirit of the Cycladic nude figures-idols, through the prism of the modernist tradition rethinks the reticence and geometric abstraction of Brancusis and ModiglianiaEURtms abstract sculpture, and, echoing Chagalls naivety, primitivism ...

Daniel Janssens - "It is the woman's beauty and mystery that have made me paint and sculpt in the first place." The artist, who previously painted only one human figure per painting, has recently begun to represent several figures, and these figures are no longer exclusively women. In sculpture also, the single human figures of the beginning are gradually replaced by intertwined figures, that go by two, by couple, or even by trio or quartet. "Previously, it was the individual that questioned me. Now, increasingly, I paint and sculpt attitudes and relationships." Painting and sculpture are based on different relationships: that between the sculptor-painter and his painting or sculpture, that between colors and shapes, that between the spectator and the work of art, and finally, the possible relationship between the different spectators. "However, I have not become a narrative artist, even if the spectator can invent stories about the human figures they see depicted." - But why only one subject? - Because the more one concentrates on one - and only one - subject, the deeper one can go, and the more style and technique can speak freely. If one always seeks to change subjects, it becomes difficult to specialize in it." It is the...

Mikhail Fomiryakov - Hello! I represent works of my father Georgiy Fomiryakov. He is a well-known artist in Russia with a unique style of painting. He took part in many art exhibitions in Russia since 1982 up until present time. Some of his works are currently in National Art Museum (Cheboksary, Russia), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia) and in private collections in Europe, India, United Arab Emirates. He recieved quite a lot of attention in his own country, now I want to show my father's talent to the rest of the world. Enjoy!...