Boguslaw Dobrowolski
CERAMICS ARTIST
Hi I am Boguslaw . I was Born in 1962 and a graduate of the State College of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. I achieved my Diploma in 1990 at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass, I also studied in the unique ceramics’ studio of prof. Irena Lipska-Zworska and the ceramics design studio of Lidia Kupczynska-Jankowiak. I am creative in the field of unique ceramics, painting, and sculpture.
Born in 1962 and a graduate of the State College of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Boguslaw Dobrowolski achieved a Diploma in 1990 at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass. He studied in the unique ceramics studio of prof. Irena Lipska-Zworska and the ceramics design studio of Lidia Kupczynska-Jankowiak. He is creative in the field of unique ceramics, painting and sculpture. Since 1992, he has been running a ceramic studio at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko and since 2008, he has been the commissioner of the Lab-Oro International Ceramic Open-Air. He has been a participant of artistic plein-airs, incl. in Ćmielów, Bolesławiec, Platerów, Bolestraszyce, Vilnius, Daugavpils and Orońsko.
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WORK PROCESS
STEP 1
I always start work on each new activity with a projection of what is needed. It is often a drawn model, but it can also be three-dimensional - made of clay or plasticine. Then a plaster model is created, enlarged by a dozen or so percent so that the final effect is the right size after the clay shrinks. I use this model to make a negative plaster mould.
STEP 2
From the gypsum mould, I make slip casts or imprints of plastic clay, which, after individual processing and drying, I pre-burn in a ceramic kiln to achieve the so-called ‘biscuit’ effect. Thanks to this, I obtain a variety of shapes from the form.
STEP 3
I can then cover the biscuit sculpture with coloured glazes, engobes or metal oxides. Then the sculpture is fired again, this time at high temperature (1050 or 1230 degrees C). Glazes and oxides fuse creating the desired effects on the surface of the sculpture.
STEP 4
When I make a unique sculpture (in one copy), I build it directly from properly prepared clay. It can be red or light clay. I initially fire such a sculpture to bisque, then cover it with glaze or rub it with metal oxides and fire it again in a ceramic furnace.
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