The good, the bad and the ugly of firing methods When we talk about firing methods, we’ll often talk about oxidation and reduction. Oxidation and reduction are different processes. Therefore, the same glaze can look very different when fired in either atmosphere. Oxidation means having a good supply of oxygen in the kiln. When [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Ceramic Firing Methods Hello! I hope you’re well. We’re back with more informative posts, and this time we’re exploring different ceramic firing methods. We’ll look at some of the most common ones, including the good, the bad and the ugly of each. When discussing firing methods, we [...]
Between Form and Illusion: A Conversation with Velimir Vukičević For more than five decades, Serbian ceramic artist Velimir Vukičević has explored the meeting point between sculpture and painting. Working primarily with porcelain, he uses colour, drawing and three-dimensional illusion to challenge our perception of ceramic form. Ahead of his workshop at ElTornBarcelona, we invited him [...]
como hacer flores en porcelana, con Sophia Aguilera Sophie Aguilera: Porcelain Flowers, Observation, and the Art of Preserving the Ephemeral Some artists work with materials. Others work with the way we see the world. Sophie Aguilera does both. Through porcelain, Sophie creates delicate floral sculptures that seem to suspend time. Her work captures [...]
Carrèment Moi - breaking the square Thank you for joining us to view this group show presented by members, teachers, and ex-members of ElTorn. The proposal for this show was to give artists an opportunity to make something entirely new. They were asked to play with one of these two angles: Squares, rectangles, hard edges, [...]
Belgium Artist Guy Leemput Fragility as Form — The World of Guy Van Leemput In the delicate balance between control and chance, Guy Van Leemput’s work pushes the limits of porcelain. His pieces, so thin they seem almost impossible, are the result of a slow, precise, and deeply intuitive process, where material, time, [...]
C.A. Traen ceramicist artist Interview with the ceramicist artist C.A. Traen: The Body as a Space of Tension and Transformation Before building an international career as both artist and educator, C.A. “Cat” Traen developed a practice rooted in the human figure—using clay to explore identity, pressure and the complexity of contemporary life. Working [...]
Workshop en ElTorn con el artista Robert Lawarre III Interview with Robert Lawarre III, When Mechanics Meets Clay Before dedicating himself fully to ceramics, Robert Lawarre worked in the world of mechanics and auto racing. That experience still shapes his artistic language today. Many of the textures that appear in his work come [...]
Ten Centuries for a Secret... Ceramics were created to solve practical problems: storing water, cooking food, transporting goods. Nothing particularly mysterious.But one material —porcelain— transformed this everyday act into an object of absolute desire. In Asia, porcelain was developed over a thousand years ago, and for centuries its recipe was fiercely guarded. It wasn’t [...]
"Porcelain is brittle, hard, resistant to compression, and weak in tension. It is made with two substances: kaolin and petuntse, or 'ceramic stone,' which gives the ceramic its translucency and hardness. It is elegant, refined, and at the same time demanding (it doesn't allow just anyone to 'work' with [...]
