Sculpture
Sea Totem
Stacked faces, blue slip and glaze
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Ceramic artist · commissions open
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I’m Vitaliy Manech, a visual artist and ceramicist with over 30 years of practice. From my studio in Portimão, I make functional objects, sculptural pieces and ceramic art with a character of their own.
“Sea Totem” · available · price on request
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Selected work
Drawing, carried into clay.
Thirty years of drawing, painting and form — across vessels, platters, tiles, murals and sculpture.
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Process
In the studio
Drawing meets clay · process film
Vessel
Textured lidded vessel
Hand-built form · studio archive
Tableware
Painted landscape platter
Freehand landscape · glazed ceramic
Process
Form in progress
A vessel finding its character
Process
Before the firing
Surface, line and unfired clay
Tableware
Praia da Rocha cups
Painted cups · functional art
Vitaliy Manech
A life shaped by art.
For more than 30 years, Vitaliy Manech has moved between drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics. His work has appeared in more than 100 exhibitions and has received awards for its distinctive craft and imagination.
Recognition followed, but it was never the starting point. The studio remains a way of life: working by hand, testing form and surface, and making objects with enough character to become part of someone else’s everyday world.
30+
years making art
100+
exhibitions
1/1
each work unique
Made for a life, not just a pedestal.
Sculptural incense & bakhoor burners
Made to hold smoke. Built to hold attention.
Manech’s incense burners bring sculpture into daily ritual. Each construction is designed around heat, airflow and release, so bakhoor, oud and incense move through the ceramic form in a different way.
Form follows fragrance
Openings, chambers and lids are considered as part of the composition. As smoke finds its route, the piece changes — revealing how it was built.
For private and public interiors
Made as one-off works for homes, hospitality spaces and collectors. Scale, colour and smoke path can be developed for a commission.
Bakhoor · oud · resin incense
Commissions & services
Turn a wall into a story.
Vitaliy creates permanent ceramic work for spaces of every scale, combining drawing, painting and clay in a single, site-specific piece.
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Tile murals
Made-to-measure ceramic murals for homes, restaurants, hotels and public spaces — from the first drawing to the finished installation.
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Painted walls
Site-specific artistic wall painting shaped around the architecture, atmosphere and story of a place.
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Custom pieces
One-off vessels, panels, tableware and sculptural ceramics made for a person, collection or interior.
Have a wall, room or idea in mind? Share its dimensions, location and a few photographs to begin a conversation.
Commission a muralThe shop
Take one home
Original work, documented and managed directly by the studio. Unique pieces remain visible after sale as part of Manech’s living archive.
Orange Vessel PairPrice on request
A pair of tall wheel-thrown vessels with warm orange surfaces and hand-worked texture.
Figures PlatterPrice on request
An irregular hand-painted ceramic platter with two expressive figures and graphic linework.
Girl by the Sea VasePrice on request
A blue-and-white cylindrical vase painted with a characterful figure and geometric border.
Sea TotemPrice on request
A tall segmented blue-and-white ceramic totem with painted faces, photographed on the coast.
Enquiries, stockists & commissions
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conversation.
Ask about an available piece, propose a ceramic or mural commission, or introduce your shop, gallery, restaurant or interior project. Share what you know so far — a budget is helpful, never required.