ola lewczyk

 







I.objects⊹ candles
⊹ pottery


II. projects
⊹ korowaj dla marzanny i dziewanny
⊹ kwiat paproci
⊹ 3 steps towards klepisko
⊹ 148 bricks
⊹ kratt
⊹ experimental archeology
⊹ fire angel
⊹ backyard brick coop


III. shop⊹ enter my internet targ <3
⊹ stockists

















about
@olalewczyk
olewczyk@gmail.com










I make or collect most things that I need
the clay, materials, tools 

depending on what’s at hand
the clay pieces are thrown, hand built or shaped in earth moulds

























⊹ leluje





 


















firing-
small glow, fire outside the chamber
gradually growing as we feed the kiln with wood, matching its drops and rises. 
stoking every couple of minutes over two-four days and nights 
we reach 1250-1300 degrees.
pathways of flames and ash leave permanent traces on the clay.
heat burning the face, sore muscles, squinting eyes.



















































⊹ firing Nic Collins’ groundhog kiln (4 days)



























⊹ firing Sabine Nemet’s soda olsen kiln (2 days)






























































































glazes-
potassium, calcium, magnesium extracted by a plant from the ground during 
its life, encapsulated in its ashes. when these minerals bind with the elements 
in the clay body, they melt into a glaze.

foraged nettle, dandelion, pine cones, grass,
birch that grows around my family house in poland that they used over winter,
ash from the previous firings,
are all basis for developing my glazes.





































































⊹ building of a phoenix kiln to make the ash