Some time ago we met polish artist Andrzej, who is close to us a a person as well as a ceramist. Finally, we realized our cooperation and we are very glad we can present his „tea“ pieces on our website.

Andrzej about his work:
„From the very beginning of my activity I was interested in tea pottery. If I remember well, the second vessel I made in my life was a teapot. A tea set was a part of my final pottery diploma, too. I wasn’t a tea connoisseur at that time – I’ve been drinking „Gun powder”, the only green tea available in Poland then, and because of my buddhism interests I’ve known „The Book of the Tea” but that was all. I loved tea vessels then, since they were closest to my idea of human need to surround oneself with things that are simple, beatiful and functional at the same time. Besides, a tea pot is – due to its multi-segmented form – an interesting object, a challenge and a good exercise.
In last couple of years the situation has changed as I’ve met several people involved in so called ‘tea culture’ in Poland and Czech Republic. I opened my eyes to variety of tastes, shapes and smells of different teas from Japan, China, Korea and India, as well as to the abundance of traditions and rituals resulting in specific pottery shapes I did not know or did not properly understood. Now I try to blend those two passions in order to create my own pottery style, enhanced with centuries long traditions of distant lands.
I owe a great deal to pottery masters I’ve met on my way. Most of all Ruthane Tudball, whose
style of throwing and what she later did to soft, barely thrown forms will always be my source of inspiration. The Australian Barry Jackson, who introduced me to endless world of natural, organic surfaces. That you can translate those experiences to the very process of throwing was a lesson I took from the French Thiebaut Chague. Last but no least, I inherited love to matt glazes from outstanding Polish potter and my friend since KERAMOS times, Magdalena Winiarska-Gotowska.”