About

After two decades in international corporate life, she returned to ceramics to reclaim something slower — and found in clay a language that had been waiting for her.

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Trained under a Hungarian ceramic artist and Zen monk, her practice is rooted in presence — in the quiet dialogue between hand, material, and time. She works entirely by hand, building vessels and sculptural forms through coiling, pinching, tataki and kurinuki techniques, shaping each piece intuitively and without repetition.

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Her work draws from a life lived across cultures — Hungary, Norway, the UK — and from a deep connection to Japanese aesthetics and Nordic restraint. These influences meet in her ongoing body of work, The World in Chaos — an exploration of elemental forces, of what earth and water leave on each other, of transformation held in form. Surfaces are often left unglazed, raw and tactile, allowing the stoneware to speak without interference.

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Her practice extends beyond vessels into Ikebana — the Japanese art of flower arranging — a discipline that continues to open new directions in her work. The two practices share the same instinct: to find stillness within movement, and meaning within form.

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Ildikó is a member of London Potters and Anglian Potters and is currently exhibiting her in the UK.