LINE, COLOUR, SURFACE: DECORATING CERAMICS
We welcome you to join us during a one-day workshop where we will explore a range of techniques possible in surface design and decoration of ceramics. The workshop will be held by our studio assistant Weronika Puciłowska, who learnt them through developing their Master’s diploma at the Wrocław’s Academy of Art and Design.
For millenia ceramics carried meaning through images and patterns on its surface. The natural human need to seek beauty pushed all cultures to decorate everyday objects, leading to the development of a variety of styles and application methods.
During the workshop we will cover a selection of underglaze techniques like painting, inlay, monotype, stamps and cutouts, sgraffito and more. We will share tips and tricks on how to transfer designs onto pieces that might be curved, bellied, plastic or brittle.
We will start with making pieces to decorate later and then we will prepare designs to be applied during the second part of the workshop. You’re welcome to bring your sketchbooks, doodles or inspirations to the workshop, but don’t feel obligated to do so; you can also get inspired by example pieces prepared by us during technique demonstrations.
You will be able to try out different methods and choose which ones to utilise to suit your own artistic vision.
We will use commercially available resources as well as wild clay slips, to achieve effects replicable in your own ceramic practice and connected with Anja Slapničar’s methods of exploring local geology.
The workshop will be held in English and it is suitable for both beginners and experienced potters.
The works above were made during Weronika’s internship in our studio, using inlay, transfer and sgraffito techniques and slips from Slovenian clays.
About the Teacher
Weronika Puciłowska is a Polish artist currently staying in the studio on an Erasmus internship after earning a Master’s degree in Art and Design of Ceramics at the Wrocław’s Academy of Art and Design.
They started learning ceramics in a small studio where they later worked for two years, teaching workshops in wheelthrowing and handbuilding, eventually developing their own small brand called prawie proste. In their practice they focus on simple wheelthrown vessels decorated with handpainted illustrations inspired by nature, polish folklore and children’s stories. They love exploring different techniques in search for new visual effects and always look for the most efficient solution to any problem.
Examples of their previous work using transfer, inlay, pastels and painting techniques.
When
18th July 2026,
10:00 – 18:00, with a break for lunch
Where
Studio Anja Slapničar,
Tržaška cesta 36,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia →
Price
80€ / person, small lunch included
Registration is confirmed with the payment of the first half of the workshop fee. Second half of the workshop fee is settled upon arrival to the first meeting.
In case of cancellation we keep 20% of the workshop fee that has already been paid.
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LINIJA, BARVA, POVRŠINA: DEKORACIJA KERAMIKE
Vabimo vas na enodnevno delavnico, na kateri bomo raziskovali različne tehnike površinske obdelave in dekoracije keramike. Delavnico bodo vodili Weronika Puciłowska, asistent v našem studiu, ki so te tehnike poglobljeno razvijali med pripravo magistrskega dela na Akademiji za umetnost in oblikovanje v Vroclavu.
Keramika že tisočletja pripoveduje zgodbe skozi podobe in vzorce na svoji površini. Človeška potreba po lepoti je v vseh kulturah spodbudila okraševanje vsakdanjih predmetov, kar je skozi čas privedlo do razvoja številnih slogov in načinov dekoriranja.
Na delavnici bomo spoznali izbor tehnik dekoracije s podglazurnimi barvami kot so poslikava, inlay, monotype, štampiljke, izrezanke, sgraffito in druge. Delili bomo tudi praktične nasvete kako motive uspešno prenesti na keramične izdelke različnih oblik – od ukrivljenih in zaobljenih površin do mehke, še nepečene ali krhke keramike.
Najprej bomo izdelali keramične izdelke, ki jih bomo kasneje okrasili, nato pa pripravili motive, ki jih bomo nanje prenesli v drugem delu delavnice. Udeleženci so vabljeni, da s seboj prinesejo skicirke, risbe ali druge vizualne reference, vendar to ni nujno potrebno. Navdih bodo lahko našli tudi med primeri, ki jih bomo pripravili in predstavili ob prikazu posameznih tehnik.
Udeleženci bodo preizkusili različne metode in izbrali tiste, ki najbolje podpirajo njihov lasten ustvarjalni izraz.
Na delavnici bomo uporabljali tako komercialno dostopne materiale kot tudi engobe iz lokalnih divjih glin. Tako bomo spoznali postopke, ki jih bomo lahko vključili v svojo keramično prakso, hkrati pa se bomo seznanili z načinom raziskovanja lokalne geologije, ki je značilen za delo Anje Slapničar.
Delavnica bo potekala v angleškem jeziku in je primerna tako za začetnike kot tudi za izkušene keramičarje.
Dela na fotografijah so nastala med prakso v našem studiu. Pri njihovem nastanku so bile uporabljene tehnike inlay, prenosa motivov (transfer) in sgraffita ter engobe, pripravljene iz slovenskih glin.
O učitelju
Weronika Puciłowska so poljski umetnik, ki trenutno opravljajo Erasmusovo strokovno prakso v našem studiu, po tem ko so na Akademiji za umetnost in oblikovanje v Vroclavu magistrirali iz oblikovanja keramike.
S keramiko so se začeli ukvarjati v manjšem studiu, kjer so pozneje dve leti tudi poučevali delavnice vrtenja na lončarskem vretenu in ročnega oblikovanja gline. Ob tem so razvili tudi svojo blagovno znamko prawie proste.
V svoji umetniški praksi ustvarjajo predvsem preproste posode, oblikovane na lončarskem vretenu, ki jih dekorirajo z ročno poslikanimi ilustracijami, navdihnjenimi z naravo, poljsko ljudsko tradicijo in otroškimi zgodbami. Radi raziskujejo različne keramične tehnike, iščejo nove vizualne učinke in vedno stremijo k preprostim, učinkovitih rešitvam ustvarjalnih izzivov.
Primeri njihovih prejšnjih del z uporabo tehnik prenosa (transfer), inlay, pastelov in poslikave.
Datum
18. julija 2026,
med 10. in 18. uro, z odmorom za kosilo
Časovni obseg
1 srečanje, 7 ur
Lokacija
Studio Anja Slapničar,
Tržaška cesta 36,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia →
Cena
80€ / osebo, v ceno je vključeno malo kosilo
Registracija je potrjena s plačilom prve polovice zneska. Druga polovica zneska se poravna ob prihodu na prvo srečanje.
V primeru odpovedi zadržimo 20% plačila, ki je že bilo izvedeno.
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