Jatropha. The flower that surprised me with its colour

Sometimes I know in advance what the next project will be. Other times, a plant finds me on its own. Right now I am working on jatropha — an unusual tropical plant that caught my attention straight away, and first of all by its colour. After so many soft, pastel shades, it felt strange to pick up something so deeply crimson. Saturated, alive, almost luminous. But the longer I study jatropha, the more I find myself falling for it beyond the colour alone.

What captivates me most are its miniature flower clusters. It looks as though dozens of tiny blooms have gathered together on a single slender stem. Each one is very small on its own, yet together they create exactly the kind of expressive image that is impossible to overlook.

Plants like this are what inspire me to make flowers in cold porcelain. They remind me that beauty is not always loud. Sometimes it hides in the smallest details — in the curve of a petal, a gradual shift of tone, a fine stem, or in the way nature assembles countless tiny flowers into one harmonious inflorescence. Work on every cold porcelain flower begins with a long period of observation. I study the shape, the proportions, the character of the plant. What matters to me is not simply reproducing its appearance, but preserving the feeling that comes with encountering a living flower. Jatropha has been exactly that kind of discovery for me — unexpected, vivid and very delicate. Before long it will take its place among my botanical works. For now, I continue to look closely at each small bloom and bring it to life in cold porcelain, one step at a time.