Last weekend I went to Aberystwyth, Wales with Ceramics Ireland  to take part in the International Ceramics Festival . It was my first festival but definitely not the las one :) Programm was packed with demonstrations, talks and firings. Make sure to be there in 2 years time!!! It's worth going to. Here are some photos of what we have seen :) Tomek and Aga Opening ceremony - it was about a 1000 of us :) You could buy tools, books, kilns and many more :) Sculpture kiln by Jorgen Hansen. Example of 3D printed glazed plaster!! by Michael Eden Glass bottle kiln by Karin Putsch-Grassi. Karin Putsch-Grassi with the Penguin Bottle :) Demo pieces by Shigemasa Higashida  Toolmaking workshop :) Demonstrators Gallery. Kate Malone. Emma Rodgers' demonstration. Ponimin M Hum Ponimin's demonstration. Mark Hewitt and Ponimin M Hum. Mateusz Grobelny's mobile kiln. Ruthanne Tudball demonstration. Kate Malone's demonstration. Kate Ma...

I was cleaning my apartment this week and I found very old drawings - some even from 2002 but I won't show them :) Here are some drawings I did in 2007 They are far from good and I like to think I could do better now :) At the time I was making them I was attending Portfolio Preparation Course in Limerick College of Further Education and all of the above were my homework life drawings of Tomek. I was very 'stressed' in them and couldn't loosen up even though I was trying - I was still afraid of the big white page in front of me.  All my skills and approach was straight from polish art course - it was all about the technique and I didn't know anything about creativity and was a bit scared when I discovered that I am able to make crazy thing as well: They are all a product of one night work :) I got crazy and was drawing to the music - as you can see it made me happy. This batch of drawings is the 'looses...