Artfilipe: Manuel Filipe Pereira, Porcelain Art

The purpose of this work of style and color is to show Filipe's creative and impressionist approach to flower painting on porcelain, depicting a variety of flowers such as tulips, poppies, roses, hydrangeas and more, aiming to inspire all those who admire the color, beauty and expression of his paintings.

All the pieces were painted by hand by Filipe Pereira, with his own colors and prepared with his Open Medium (Middle Oil), burned with the cone 014 at 840 degrees.

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Alzora was born in November 28, 1943 in the Washington State , United States of America.

She took classes of china painting with Frances Morrill for a year. After painting with Frances, she moved to San Jose, California, where she studied Academic Art with Maynard Dixon Stewart, former student of Frank Vincent Dumond at the New York Students Art League.

Almost thirty years ago, she started holding her first classes in china painting at Puyallup, Washington.

She has worked in any and all mediums that use a brush including water color, oil, acrylic,and porcelain which is her favorite, and she has been teaching porcelain art techniques for over half of her life both in the United States and abroad.

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"Mexico lindo e querido! ... As the songs says...

It is impossible to forget all the experiences and people of this great country where I arrived years ago... My pretty and beloved Mexico..., I came to teach, but I learn and received so much more.

It´s been fundamental for my profession my acquaintance and experiences lived with all the beautiful people I have met throughout all these years in Mexico.

I treasure great occurrences and experiences, among which the most important for me are the love and friendship I have found in this country. My students have become my family and they´ve made me feel as part of theirs. We have shared happiness, triumphs and even woes.

I came very young to Mexico teach, and since the first moment I felt the richness and color of this country, full, of culture and traditions which makes it unique. I´ve learned to be one of them, to eat hot chilli, to drink tequila, to know and enjoy their culinary richness, to express myself with the typical happiness of Mexicans, to feel Mexican.

I am grateful to Mexico, my students, their husbands and children, their friends... everyone who has given me so much love and affection. I thank God for giving me the opportunity of living among these warmhearted and detached people, for being a light in the immense humanity, and to the Mexicans, for allowing me to shine in the entrusted task of teaching and spreading porcelain painting."

-- Filipe Pereira 2008

Life is not measured in the days we have lived, but in the lessons we have learned. These words fit in every sense when one meets this great master. Exceptional human being, bosom friend, Filipe, an artist born great, offers in his second book a set of ideas come to life in eloquent pieces and images of extraordinary quality. It is our wish that you will enjoy this book as much as we did in producing it, and may it serve as a teaching of the fine art that is porcelain painting.

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"To my Parents

Since my early childhood, I drew constantly on notebooks, walls, sand, and anywhere I could use my coloring pencils.

I was attracted to my mother´s tureens and her china.

My father however was a bit reluctant to my choices, and didn´t understand how the light and the colors of these beautiful pieces fascinated me. But little by little, my determination showed him my vocation: to paint on porcelain.

I am grateful to my parents for taking me to the beautiful island of Madeira, where my love for the amazing flowers, gardens and landscapes bloomed. Their incredible beauty exalted my love of nature. Even then, as a child, I gathered mud to form roses, petal by petal. Roses are still today my favorite flower.

My father with his patience and religious personality watched me and tried to dissuade me.

My mother, with the same attitude, didn´t understand why I was so motivated to paint on my notebooks, on the walls, on the mud pots, ceramics, porcelain and anything else that came to hand.

I dedicate this book to my parents. Because now, I think I could explain why I have became a porcelain painter.

Thanks to them, their questioning and doubts, I was forced to prove the contrary, and today, wherever they are, I know they are proud of my achievements."

-- Filipe Pereira 2004

Manuel Filipe Pereira, maestro in porcelain painting, shows us the great range of his talent in this first book of a beautiful collection. The outstanding porcelain pieces in this book will be an inspiration for porcelain artists as well as for all lovers of Art.

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PROMOTION!

"L'idée de ce livre est venue naturellement dans le fil de la discussion, aprés une rude journée de travail avec Filipe. Et puis, elle a fait son chemin, chacun apportant ses idées au project...

Un soir, nous avons dit: 'Allez, réalisons ce livre!'

Et je trouvais des porcelaines plus variées les unes que les autres e Filipe peignait, peignait... inventan les décors les plus fous, effaçant aussi quelques fois quand nos délires allaient trop loin.

Les dates sur les pièces montrent que notre idée a malgré tout demandé plusiers annés pour se concrétiser.

Filipe complétant le livre lors de ses nombreaux passages dans mon atelier.

Il a été réalisé avec du travail, de la rigolade et surtout beaucoup de amitié."

Cath. Bergoin

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"To lovely Mexico, a country rich in art and culture, a land whose people are guided by a creative spirit which allows them to easily recognize the quality of each artists´ work who visits.

I dedicate this book with deep appreciation to all these stupendous people that have welcomed me with open arms. I hope this book will be of help in producing your pieces within the infinity of techniques of the world of porcelain painting.

With affectionate regards to all you beautiful Mexican people,..."

Filipe Pereira, 1993

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