My name is Magda Toth, I am a Hungarian ceramic artist, living in Ireland. After a long break from ceramic work, I’ve started again 2,5 years

The clay for me is a form of self-expression. My studio is for me a place of retreat. Where I can be my own, emerge to my conscious and subconscious self, finding success through failures, struggles; learning focus, endurance, also humility, and patience. I love to work passionately.

I am testing the new, and for me unfamiliar, clays, techniques. I became very impressed with paper clay, which, with a tissue in it, crosses the limits of usual clay. Now I’m pushing those limits with my creations. I build from hand-rolled, thin sticks tetrahedrons (triangle-based pyramid), and connecting them to each other at the top and bottom I get a hexahedron, which is the base of my 3D tissue. With this tissue, I try to sculpt different forms, which reflect my feelings, impressions.

I get inspiration from the surrounding world: nature, science, micro- and macro world, human- and animal architecture, the architecture of the body, and the network systems which are the proof of interconnectivity.

Day by day I am learning, exploring, experiencing. I give form to my creations and they shape me too. I am driven ahead by my curiosity.