Maria Starzyk

Biography

Maria Starzyk is a designer of decorations of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec. She is a Graduate of State High School of Fine Arts in Sędziszów. Maria has been working for the Cooperative since 1996. As a designer, she has introduced over 1500 unique decorations, starting from color balanced geometrical elements to multi-colored compositions, characterized by her personal sense of freedom. Maria also has incorporated floral motifs that are painted in hues of green, brown, red, yellow and cobalt.

Her new collection of a unique decoration style is “Łąka”. These decorations are finely painted with delicate details and pastel hues, resembling watercolour designs. Water, wave and bubbles were the inspiration to create the new “Fala” decorations for products in the shape of fish. Colourful tenement houses, which have been decorating the market square in Bolesławiec for decades, were the inspiration to create new decorations which presently grace ceramics.

Works

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L39
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L88
U2515
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U3147
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Exhibition

Group Exhibitions and Awards:

2000 – 2019

“Ambiente” International Fair in Frankfurt am Main.

2018

Laureate  of the Good Design 2018 competition for special design values for the product of “Bowls and Fish-shaped Dishes” in the decoration of “KOBALTOWE CHMURKI” design decoration by Maria Starzyk, design form by Mariusz Ochocki.

2018

Exhibition “Good Design” Industrial Design Institute in Warsaw.

2018

New design in Bolesławiec ceramics “Barwy Niepodległej.”  Exhibition of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna,“ The Culture Centre in Bolesławiec – International Ceramics Centre in Bolesławiec.

2018

Presentation of ceramic products decorating of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Tokyo, Nagoya, Matsumoto – Japan.

2013 – 2018

“New Design in Bolesławiec Ceramics” – Exhibition of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna,” Cultural Centre in Bolesławiec – International Ceramics Centre, Bolesławiec

2017

Exhibition “Good Design” - Industrial Design Institute in Warsaw.

2017

“From Bolesławiec Clay” – Exhibition at the Polish Institute in Rome.   

2016

“From Bolesławiec Clay” – Exhibition in Italian city of Vietri sul Mare.

2016

“From Bolesławiec Clay” – Exhibition at the Ceramics Museum, Bolesławiec.

2016

Design Exhibition of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna”  at the Kepler Science Centre – Nature Centre in Zielona Góra.

2016

“Art from the Fire”. Stoneware Dishes of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec, Mazowsze Village Museum in Sierpc.

2015

“Stoneware Dishes of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec, Father Krzysztof Kluk Agricultural Museum, Ciechanowiec.

2013

“Art from the Fire” Stoneware Dishes of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec, Central Textile Industry Museum in Łódź. 

2012

Presentations of products of Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Tokyo, Japan.

2006 – 2011

The Zanger Company “Presentation and the sale of a collection of stoneware products on the Home Shopping Network, QVC” USA.

2004

“Design of Artistic Ceramics” Cultural Centre in Bolesławiec.

2002

“Designers of Artistic Ceramics” Ceramics Museum, Bolesławiec.

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