Mária Palenčárová

She was born in 1977 in Prešov, where she lives and works.

She finished the Primary Art School in Prešov, art department, under the guidance of Ľubomír Guman. Her teachers include also Juraj Škatulár, Andrej Gáj, Peter Kocák and Viktor Židík. She has taken private lessons with a ceramist Peter Čentík.

The basis of her work is working with clay, from which she creates original objects. She works with artistic ceramics as well as drawing, painting and graphic art. 

Figurative work predominates in the objects. With different points of view, their transformation can be observed. The clay creatures seem to move seamlessly from abstraction to real contours and again shroud themselves in something clearly undefined. They suggest and shroud. They leave space for the observers to explore, search, create and finally find their own story, their own idea in the work.

“The hand awakened the mind of man created from the dust of the ground, and the mind gives the hand the courage to knead the clay and create a world of wonders.”