Rimas VisGirda’s makes wheel-thrown, hand built and sculpted slab work, with a surface decoration that is rampant with scenes from daily and social life and physical surroundings. Often his paintings are satiric commentaries on life. the work intself tends to have a “comic book” look.
Perhaps best known for his plates,
“VisGirda slab builds his plate forms from a terra cotta body. Following a pencil outline, he brushes on underglazes then applies wax to the entire surface. He redraws the figure and the outer border by scratching through the wax and into the clay surface and then inlays liquid black underglaze into the scratched lines. After bisque firing to cone 05, he waxes the figure portion and outer edge again but leaves the background alone. After sketching in flowers with a pencil, he applies underglazes to the flowers, leaves and stems and further defines them with black underglaze. He applies wax over the flower stems and leaves then sponges blue underglaze onto the background. After firing to cone 5, he adds shading with an underglaze pencil then fire to cone 3.” -Ceramics Art Daily
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