Lorac Ceramics

Pistoia, ITALY

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
Henri Matisse

Art has always been part of her life, born in Lugano, Switzerland, since she was a child she painted and created with her mother. She studied at the Art high school of Pietrasanta in Tuscany, where she discovered clay and marble, at the Academy of fine Arts in Florence she concentraded in painting, and then left it in 2021 to dedicate herself to ceramics, where however the pictorial part remained very important in her works. She fell in love with ceramics for its slowness in execution, its unpredictability, for it infinite uses and possibilities, it helped her to accept mistakes, because what is made by hand cannot always be perfect.

Her works are mostly made in low-temperature white clay, a blank canvas on which to paint with bright colors without a drawing but with spontaneous brushstokes, realizing simplified shapes from flowers to the famale figures, that she has always created in painting too. The dominant color is blue, a color with she feels a strong connection. Inspired by artist such as Matisse and Picasso, and the forms of nature simplified almost to the point of a childish drawing. In addition to her production, she works as a professional porcelain decorator, ceramics and painting teacher.