Barragens
These authorial ceramic pieces, in faience and raw glaze, are part of an ongoing series untitled Barragens, which explore and showcase the beauty of the relation between the colours of the water in the big lakes/dams and the evolving environment and landscapes in Alentejo region, where I live. It is the result of a working process and technique, developed to attain the colours and the movements of the water and grounds, throughout the behaviour of the clay faience, giving an opportunity to the chance, the hazard and the accidents to work in favour of the final resultant object: an Abstract Landscape ceramic. Which, I hope, each piece exhibits something singular and unique.
Lavoura, 2019
Lavoura, meaning tillage in Portuguese, is the preparation of land for growing crops.
For the experience with agricultural life and working in the field, this serie of ceramics represents the soil graded in the first phase of sowing.
Its unique characteristics and shapes, with different textures and colors, which go from a pink mate to a shining brown, handmade in Portuguese Faience with black beer glaze, are what makes the eleven pieces that compose this serie unique.
