18″ W – Raku fired ceramic – 1984
You may say this work is sexist. The poor man has no steps to make. Now, that is life. So, you see, the opening moves are as important as in the real chess game, use your head above your neck, before you make a step…
18″ W – Raku fired ceramic – 1984
You may say this work is sexist. The poor man has no steps to make. Now, that is life. So, you see, the opening moves are as important as in the real chess game, use your head above your neck, before you make a step…
24″W x 20″H – raku fired ceramic – 1989
Approx 20″ diameter – Raku fired ceramic- 1989
One of Aesop’s fable; The fox, the Crow & the cheese. I think you know who eat the cheese.
Do not believe in every kind words…
18″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1982
18″dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 1983
We had a cottage on Gull Lake. This was the view in late fall.
24″W x 16″H – raku fired ceramic – 1999
24″W x 36″H – raku fired ceramic – 1988
20″W x 24″H – Raku fired ceramic – 1997 SOLD
I love to listen to Lenard songs. This is one of his song “If You Want…” I made that for a beautiful young Lady, Lara…
24″ W – Raku fired ceramic – 1999
25″ W – Raku fired ceramic – 1999
24″ W – Raku fired ceramic – 1999
18″H x 14″W – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1982
14″W x 18”H – Raku fired ceramic – 1983
20″ dia. – Stonware & melted glass – 1984
18″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 1999
18″ dia. – Stoneware & melted glass – 1982
18″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 1980
Would you recognize it if I didn’t tell you the name of this piece?
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 1994
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2002
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2002
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 1995
20″ dia. – Oxidation fired, glass melt – 1979
The underwater sea life gave the idea. Specifically, the tube worms found at volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean.
26″ x 20″ – Raku fired ceramic 1992
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
I made this plate for one of my friend for his birthday.
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
Approx 20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2014
The autumn colors are magnificent as the foliage is ending their useful life.
These 20” dia. raku-fired wall hanging plates illustrate some of my old memories I gathered during our camping trips with our kids and when we were building our cottage up north at Gull Lake.
When I was making these plates I almost felt the fresh air blowing from the lake and the aroma of the decaying leaves. It was an interesting sensation. The only thing that was missing is the night sky and all those stars. So to ‘correct’ that I added my favorite constellations like the Big Dipper and Orion.
18″ x 22″ – raku fires ceramic – 2014 (SOLD)
I have ventured into the literary field. Do not worry I did not write a book.
But I try to interpret Hemingway’s “The Old Man & the Sea” in clay.
I just reread this short novel and this ceramic plate was the result of it. It is a somewhat three dimensional wall hanging.
14″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2014 (SOLD)
I have made a raku fired ceramic piece called ‘O Beatrice’ in 1984, yes thirty years ago. O my God!
I was not completely happy with the outcome of the raku firing of that piece, but for many years it was hanging on our wall. As other pieces took over the wall area it was moved out into my studio and dust was collecting on it. I’ve decided that I would re-fire it. It was a great chance that may not make it through the new firing, but I hopped my new method of firing would achieve what I wanted to do thirty years ago. It made through the firing without a crack.
This work shows Dante and his secret love, Beatrice, whom he never even talked to. And see her only twice. There were different standards at that time…
PS.: You may notice that the glaze flow down from his hat to his forehead and his eyelid. That happened thirty years ago. Now it is a very unique piece.
20” dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2014 This wall hanging plates illustrate some of my old memories I gathered during our camping trips with our kids and when we were building our cottage up north at Gull Lake.
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2014
As I have mentioned before I have an addiction.
I am obsessed to look up a website everyday.
The past 10+ years I daily look up this magnificent site, which many times give me ideas for new art subjects.
This site is: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
If you have time please look it up, I hope you will like it.
The results of this obsession are a few ceramic plates that were inspired by the website I mentioned above.
This ceramic plate try to capture that very split moment when the Sun gets out of total eclipse. At that moment this view will be seen. Astronomers call it the ‘Diamond Ring’.
I remember when I was a kid back in Hungary we were using a candle to deposit carbon on a piece of flat glass to be able to see the event. Wow it was a long-long time ago.
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2014
This plate again comes from memories of the Northern Ontario landscape.
21″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 ( SOLD) One of these days LA. will have a major earthquake and will split of the continent and the sea will rush in. You may consider that it is a gloomy picture but the colors on this plate really turned out to be outstanding… I hope it will not happen for the sake of my friends…
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 We had a cottage on Gull lake near Minden in the early 80-es. We built it from the ‘forest-up’ as it was a virgin forest before we got it. We spent all of our holidays and weekends for six years to make this ‘home away home’, but when we had twin boys on the way and I asked my wife to stay home to bring the three boys up, we sold our ‘country home’. Interestingly we never felt a loss about it. It was our durability test and it helped to buy our present home. But sometime the images of the view from the balcony come back. This is one of them.
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 In my mind this has a religious connotation, you will be the judge.
19″ x 19″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 SOLD We had a cottage on Gull lake near Minden in the early 80-es. We built it from the ‘forest-up’ as it was a virgin forest before we got it. We spent all of our holidays and weekends for six years to make this ‘home away home’, but when we had twin boys on the way and I asked my wife to stay home to bring the three boys up, we sold our ‘country home’. Interestingly we never felt a loss about it. It was our durability test and it helped to buy our present home. But sometimes the images of the view from the balcony come back. This is ANOTHER one of them.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (SOLD) I do not really know why I am so preoccupied and concerned about the San Andreas Fault. I just read that geologists predict a big earthquake is coming. So this plate depicts when this earthquake will strike; and I have some very close friends over at that side of the continent…
21″ x 16″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 I made another religious piece I call it: The Seed of Western religion…I hope you could relate to it.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (SOLD) Many years ago I was holding some clear sand in an oil dram. Sometime I used the sand to cast plaster into it to give some interesting results. (Now you can see into an artistic mind!) Once I’ve opened the dram, in mid April, just look at the sand in it. As I lifted the lid I’ve found the ‘Universe or rather the Milky-way’ at the under side of the lid. Water, that was in the sand, had condensed and frozen at the underside of the lid and made such a beautiful pattern that I could not let it melt away. I run inside into my studio and mixed some plaster and poured over the frozen water droplets on the lid. So I captured the image for future use. (If you look closer you can see the two opening of the oil dram’s, one to dispense the oil, the bigger one or the ‘Earth’ on this plate and the smaller one to let the air coming in as the oil is poured. This is the ‘Moon’ on the plate. You can also see the rim as the lid could be secured to the dram.) I have made a few copies of this ‘wonder’ during the past years…
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization. So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship. The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do.
Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society.
These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’.
Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view.
I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization.
So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship.
The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do. Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society. These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’. Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view. I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016
This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization. So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship. The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do. Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society. These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’. Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view.
I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016
It is a recurring theme for me. I felt many times like this old man, I had high hopes and at the end… I cannot complain. After 40 years of engineering work, which 33 years of it I did at the University of Toronto, finally I am a sculptor…
Approx 20″ dia – oxidation fired earthenware – 1992 (SOLD)
18″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 1992 (SOLD)
19″dia. – oxidation fired earthenware – 1980 (SOLD)
This was the first of many interpretation of my feeling re LA and the possible earthquake over there.
Plate tectonics will split that city in to the sea one of these days.
I had colour glass melted into the bowl.
20″ dia – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018 (SOLD)
19″W x 24H – Racu-fired ceramic – 2018
20″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018 SOLD It will come one of those days… some million years from now.
19″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2018 (SOLD) Yes, some million years from now our life giving sun will go overdrive and explode. It will become a white dwarf.
18″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2018 SOLD
24″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 1995-2018 I re-fired this piece and added silver on the moon and gold on the sun.
18″ tall- raku-fired ceramic – 2019 SOLD
18″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
10″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
16″ tal – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 SOLD
18″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 SOLD
20″ long – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
12″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic with melted glass – 2019
12″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
21″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 This is my feminist art. It is Daniel’s judgment that saved Susanna from the two old village elders. She was accused of adultery by the elders because she did not fulfill their sexual demand. So they charged her and she was taken out of the village to be stoned when Daniel came by. He separated the two ‘no good’ elders and easily figured out that they were lying. Then the villagers took the two old ‘geezers’ and stoned them to death!! That is the reason I like this story… virtue wins over lying.
18″dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020 The apple… the one taken by Eva…
18″dia. – oxidation fired -2020 SOLD
18″dia. – oxidation fired ceramic – 2020 SOLD
24″ x 19″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
20″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
20″dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
20″ dia. – raku-fired – 2020
20″ x 16″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2020 SOLD
24″ x 18″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
20″ dia. – Rakufired ceramic – 2021
I like and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – rakufired ceramic – 2021
I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
