CERAMIC / POTTERY Italian arts

Handcrafted CERAMICS are the vero made in Italy

Italian industrial ceramic pottery or ceramics, both artisan and not as tiles or objects for home and more are famous all over the world.
But it is the handcrafted ceramic that is the most appreciated and known brand in the world. The Italian artisan potters are real artists.

The lathe practice, that is the shaping of any shape vase starting from a piece of clay, is what most fascinates about this craft.
But also the knowledge of glazes and mineral oxides with which the decorations and colors are created are fundamental for a ceramic craftsman.
Then it takes a lot of art and imagination to create unique pieces and ensure that real works of art are created.

Made in Italy artistic ceramics are known throughout Europe and the world

It is from these knowledge and artisan passions that have led Italian ceramics to be famous all over the world such as Sienese but also Sicilian ceramics or the ceramics of Bacchereto (a small village near Florence) between history and traditions to be admired in its museum.

The life of the Italian potters takes place in Italy; but they share their professional and human experience with groups from all over Europe but above all with French Provençal potters where there is a love for ceramics.

Ceramics and italian artisan technique

The ceramist – potter is an artist who starts from the choice of terracotta, which is fundamental, then turns it, glazes it, decorates it and then finally cooks his own objects, which are unique pieces of furniture or everyday use for the home.
His is a search for harmony between form and decoration-color, where the gesture becomes unwritten memory that pushes him to a continuous creative research.

His technique is unique and millenary.

It consists in decorating the objects with natural colors of mineral oxides after baking on the simple biscuit to then be glazed and proceed with the second firing, or other techniques that are in decorating the object after glazing.

• The clay is forged on a lathe and left to dry.
• After that, the first cooking is carried out and the so-called biscuit is obtained.
• At this point, the decoration with natural colors based on mineral oxides develops on the biscuit object.
• After decoration, the objects are glazed by dipping the decorated biscuit in the glaze solution.
• After enamelling, the object is placed in the oven for final firing

This particular and unique technique means that the decoration, being personal and entirely by hand and impromptu, acquires a unique and artistic aspect.

The decoration is done according to the object in a gestural and spontaneous way entirely by hand, giving it a unique decoration. This means that all objects are unique both as artifacts, as they are handmade, but also as a decoration itself.

This completely handcrafted technique means that the decoration is personal and acquires a more artistic and particular aspect both in form but also in colors and scenes.

The ceramist workshop – art school

The potter’s workshop is open and welcoming among lathes, ovens, glazes and colors.
Often if someone goes to visit him, he finds him with groups of young people with whom he delights in teaching them his passion for ceramics and his creativity.

The potter’s workshop is open to everyone with demonstration of the use of the lathe and clay working techniques; of glazes and colors.

Working with clay is an art, but it takes a lot of passion and above all the willingness to teach it and to share one’s passion with anyone.