Purka Ceramics is Maria, a ceramicist from Gdańsk who throws pots on the wheel and hand-paints them with animal pictures – drawn from the way animals behave and the faces they pull. She learned to throw in Copenhagen. Her mugs with animals are at Locus Artis in Gdańsk.
Maria took her first steps with clay in Copenhagen – that is where she learned to throw on the wheel and made her first pieces. The potter’s wheel has stayed her favourite technique.
The other half of her work is drawing. Maria loves animals and paints them by hand on her thrown pots, watching how they behave and the faces they make. Every piece is made by hand, so no two are alike.
What she brought to Locus Artis.
She brought mugs to Locus Artis, painted with dogs of different breeds, cats and a rabbit. If she had to choose something for herself, she would take all of it – she picked every piece carefully and each one is her favourite.
