SURFACE

This two-day workshop explores unconventional approaches to creating texture in ceramics. 

Together, participants will create a series of vessels using experimental techniques that give the final pieces an ancient and raw character — fractured surfaces, irregular cracks, and layered textures. 

Throughout the workshop, participants will work with materials such as sand, bark, stone, liquid clay, and oxides, while also experimenting with a heat gun to create unique surface effects. 

Each workshop session lasts approximately 3 hours. 

Day 1 

Creating vessels — cups, bowls, and small forms — using hand-building methods, Japanese kurinuki carving, and texture techniques. 

Day 2 

Once the ceramics reach a leather-hard stage, participants will apply slips and glazes, refine the surfaces, and complete the final details of each piece. 

Price — 250 GEL (2-day workshop) 

Age — 16+.

Eufrat is a Czech ceramic artist living in the countryside of Georgia, creating raw wabisabi ceramics that resemble ancient artifacts shaped by time and fire. 

Working between functional pottery and sculptural objects, her practice is inspired by Japanese kurinuki carving, hand-building methods, and experimental glazing techniques. Through these processes, she creates rough textures, fractured surfaces, smoke-like tones, and irregular forms that emerge through the unpredictability of firing. 

Her work is drawn toward objects that feel unearthed rather than manufactured — surfaces marked by erosion, flowing glazes, carved symbols, and traces that evoke ritual, memory, and natural processes. Heat itself becomes an essential part of the transformation process. 

Alongside her personal artistic practice, Eufrat runs a ceramic studio in Kutaisi, where she teaches courses and shares contemporary approaches to ceramics.