Blanka Němcová

Blanka Němcová began to work with ceramics ten years ago, and in the last few years her creative journey has moved to the famous pottery in Levín in the Bohemian Central Highlands. In her latest series, she has begun to research and process clay from the surrounding landscape, thus naturally concluding the creative process between place, material and the resulting object. She actively experiments with firings, glazes and melting of local rocks such as basalt, emphasizing the material uniqueness of the surrounding landscape in her work. Her work is slow, meditative, and connected to the rhythm of the body and natural processes that are symbolically represented by earth and fire. The resulting objects bear a strong haptic imprint and organic curves reminiscent of sea waves or landscape reliefs. They become imprints of the momentary state of mind and the specific place in which they are created – at the border of matter, touch and the present moment.