For me being a ceramist is a way of living along with love for nature and wilderness. I have been experimenting with traditional materials -- clay, glass and light for more than 20 years, trying to break the rules, trying to make things that at first seemed impossible. With ceramics it is like with the nature. You have to listen. Never go against. The mountains tell to a mountaineer what you are allowed to do, and the same is in ceramics. I love to let the materials play, let things happen, let the materials create miracles.I love to expand boarders,  walk on the edge.
Inspiration comes from the glaciers of Alaska and the Himalayas, the endless world of snow, clouds and whiteness, the power of the mountains.

1964 Born in Tallinn Estonia

1984-1991 studies at Tallinn Academy of Arts , Master of arts

1992 studies at Institut of Keramik, Höhr-Grenzhausen

1993-1994 studies at Kassel University , prof Busz

Member of Estonian Artists` Association and Estonian Ceramic Artists` Association

AWARDS

2018 Ceramics and Colours Award Faenza, Italy, Special Prize

2017 GIC Biennale Icheon Special Prize

2015 GIC Biennale Icheon Viewer`s Choice Award, Second place

2011 Ceramist of the Year, Estonia

2004 EuCeCo Athens, Greece, SILVER MEDAL

2003 Prize de Caroque, Prize of the Ceramics Association Switzerland

1998 The Second Biennal of Ceramics, Monterrey, Mexico,Grand Prix

1997 Fletcher Challenge Award, Auckland, NZ, Merit Award

1997 The 5-th Triennal of Small Ceramics, Zagreb, Croatia,Grand Prix

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018 Under the Black and Baltic Deep, NCC, Minneapolis, USA

2017 “5”, exhibition in Minsk History Museum, Belorussia

2017 Pavsaris, Lithuania

2015 International Ceramics Exhibition, Gzhel, Russia, Design Award

2015 Goat-teapot exhibition, Shanghai

2014 Horse-teapot exhibition Shanghai

2012 Dragon-teapot exhibition Shanghai

2011 Modern Ceramics, Pavsaris, Lithuania

2009 Camard Associes, Paris, France

2007 International Exhibition of Modern Ceramics, Jingdezhen, China

2006 European Ceramic Context, Bornholm, Denmark

2004 International Emerging Ceramic Artists Invitational, Fuping,China

2004 Keramik Dieser Welt, Koblenz, Germany

INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Memory Boxes, Daugavpils, Latvia

2016 and 2018 Martinsons Award, Daugavpils, Latvia

2015 International Ceramics Competition Carouge, Switzerland

2015 Premio Faenza, Italy

2014 Westerwald Prize, Germany

2014 Mino, Japan, Honorable Mention

2013 Premio Faenza, Italy

2010 Mixed Media, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany

2009 At the Moment, Kapfenberg, Austria

2009 Wewsterwald Prize, Germany

2006 19-th Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics, Vallauris, France

2004 The First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale

2003 The Second Ceramics Biennale, Korea

2000 The Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Award

2000 ALTEC Ceramics Biennal, South-Africa.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Rain, Gallery HOP Tallinn, Estonia

2013 Winter, Gallery HOP Tallinn, Estonia

2013 Sea of Clay ,Maritime Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2011 Gaby Freymann`s Gallery, Schweinheim, Germany

2011 Art Institute of Gzhel, Russia

2010 Gisela von zur Mühlen`s Gallery, Kassel, Germany

2003 Gallery of the Diplomatic School in Bonn, Germany

1999 Gallery Fromme Contempora, Graz, Austria

Since 1994 I have participated at workshops and conferences in Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Finland, USA, China, Croathia, Korea, New Zealand, etc

Speeches and slideshows at NCECA, Ashville, USA, Fairbanks University, USA, Northern Clay Centre, Minneapolis, USA, Kassel University, Germany. At symposions in Zagreb, Auckland, Helsinki, Gmunden, Gzhel, Bonn, Icheon , etc

Demonstrations and leading workshops in Icheon Ceramic Centre, Korea; Shenhou, China ; Auckland, New Zealand,and in my own studio in Tallinn , Estonia. I have been teaching special techniques to ceramics students in Tallinn Academy of Arts as a guest lecturer ,supervised practice of students of ceramics and participated as a supervisor in a training porgram for unemployed.

Works in collections of Estonian Applied Art Museum; Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia; Art Museum of Monterrey, Mexico ;Auckland Museum, NZ; Art Museum of Amaroussin, Athens,Greece; Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan; Fuping Ceramics Museum, China; Noble Seafood Restaurant, Shanghai; Ashville Ceramics Centre, USA, Icheon, Korea, and in private collections from Australia to Russia.