Works to feel
by Eva Kelley
Miloslav Jaroš - born in 1977 in Žilina. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Constantine the Philosopher University with a degree in aesthetics and folklorism in Nitra. Works as a guitar teacher at a private primary art school. Miloslav started to do woodcarving in 2005 and became an ÚĽUV producer in 2007. Miloslav makes small horses, birds, musicians, angels etc. and uses splitting, firing, notching, sawing, filing, rasping and grinding techniques. Miloslav adds colours by smoking with cheese, steaming in ammonia, painting with tempera and aniline dyes by adding priming coat. He makes final touches with linseed oil, shellac, dammar or spray varnish.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2008:
- I am fascinated by material…
- Miroslav Brooš On-line
- Joy of dining
- Textile-mania
- (Un)conventional blueprint in the textile design studio
- Creative waste collecting
- Hedonist
- Embroidery ready-to-be-eaten
- Is it true that a useful trade pays dividends?
- Blueprint in the village of Važec
- A dyeing shop in the village of Hranovnica
- Works to feel
- Kacabajky, kordulky, jupky
- Craft in architecture – stucco