Sigouros Pottery - Ceramics Workshop in Zakyntos Island - Zante Greece

y name is Sigouros Golemis and I would like to welcome you to my web page hoping that one day I will meet you.

am a self-taught ceramicist (my first profession was as a second captain in the Greek Commercial Navy) that is why my ceramics are not influenced by other workshops or pottery academies. I have been working continually for 25 years.

y love for the Byzantine medieval ceramics, and wishing to make this era more popular to admirers of the real folklore art encouraged me to study and work in more detail on this subject.

n this web page you can discover how I create my ceramics, to give you and idea of the work involved.

use dark red clay to sculpt my designs and then after I cover it with white clay and engrave the patterns with a pin. The objects are fired in the kiln and afterwards the colours are added and covered in unleaded glaze and re-fired.

use dark red clay to sculpt my designs and then after I cover it with white clay and engrave the patterns with a pin. The objects are fired in the kiln and afterwards the colours are added and covered in unleaded glaze and re-fired.

his is the way simple engraved glazed ceramic art is produced.

he designs and forms are far too many to mention and the combination of colours mean it is difficult to find two pieces the same.