Who I am…

First of all, below, here is Giorgio (as my best friend Manu calls me) in his workshop…

I have always been discreet about my life. Allergic to the idea of ​​slipping a few photos of my “face” here and there on social networks.
However, a small exception concerning this site, you will find me in photos in places…

Ah! my hands ! I can’t hide that they are handy. Indeed, people often tell me that I have golden fingers. Maybe, is it hereditary? My grandfather was a mechanic, and also ingenious, just like my father. From my mother, I think I inherited the eagle’s vision.

I started my professional life as an electronics engineer. Certainly, a job quite far from my passion today, but taking a better look, I see, among other things, that the fact of having soldered hundreds of electronic components on their little green plates helped me to quickly familiarize myself with making stained glass. Without forgetting, my computer courses in program which allowed me to create this site without too much difficulty.

Coming back to my hands… Since childhood they have never stopped dancing with the material. Whether it was with the tools for repairing bicycles, gardening, pruning trees, it was especially during my professional reconversion that they still had the most fun. In fact, for several years I was an artisan in eco-construction. There, I discovered raw materials like clay, lime, wood and hemp. I have very good memories of these years of artisan craftwork, without forgetting the human richness and friendship of my associated artisans friends.

Finally, my creations come from the marriage between my know-how in working clay and lime with the shapes and materials that I encounter during my walks in nature. I would also like to thank Murielle for her support which allowed me to initiate this great adventure.

I will end, by emphasizing, that today it is more important to take care of nature, of which we are a part, and of course by declaring a hymn to creativity.

Long live creation within all the daily acts of all living beings…

Jorge Alves, with a cork oak trunk and paste lime in each hand
Inexhaustible and eternal creative consciousness 😉