Dahlia in Cold Porcelain. Working with Colour

The flower itself is already assembled, but for me the work doesn't end there. One of the most important stages is colour. It's colour that conveys the depth of the petals, their subtle gradations, and that sense of a living flower I want to preserve in the sculpture.

I spend a long time searching for the right shade. I study photographs, leaf through books, recall real flowers I've seen at some point. Sometimes the colour you need can't simply be lifted from a single pastel — it has to be built up gradually, layering one tone over another.

This time I'm tinting the dahlia's petals with pastel. The strokes are almost imperceptible, yet the flower slowly changes. It gains depth, and a gentle transition begins to emerge from one shade to the next.

What I love about this particular moment is when colour stops being merely colour and starts working together with form.

I make hand-crafted flowers from cold porcelain, approaching each one not simply as a decorative object but as a small floral sculpture.

The dahlia is one of those flowers where colour is especially rewarding to observe: the many petals create a whole range of light and shadow, and even a slight shift in tone can change the entire feeling of a piece.

In the end, all that remains is to look at the flower and know: yes, this is how I saw it.