A Place that inspired us.

Vidusmeži is a home, a brand, and a space of creative expression that allows to make high quality products - ceramics with character and the added value provided by the natural resources of the Salaca Valley. Hand-built ceramic products inspired by the tones and patterns of nature, with responsibility created in an environment that inspires! In this environment, artists Linda and Rinalds Zelti have been studying clay since 2016. The idea of ​​creating a pottery workshop arose with the desire to move to the countryside. Self-exploration and self-study make it possible to learn more about ceramic art and its endless technologies, allowing one to create their own unique visual identity. Experimentation is a creative process, an integral part that paves the way for new combinations of shapes, textures, and colors. In addition to creating functional ceramics, ceramist Linda Zelta creates research-based contemporary ceramic sculptures, light objects, installations made of clay, firing in various ways in alternative wood-kilns, using pit-firing technology and electric kiln firings, searching for her own visual language to show interactions between nature and contemporary ceramics. The knowledge base was supplemented by studying at the Latvian Academy of Arts Ceramics department, exchange of experience with other artists, group wood-kiln firings with other ceramists, ceramic symposiums, participating in exhibitions, leading the ceramics workshop of Mazsalaca Cultural Centers Craftshouse, and working with all kind of people organizing master classes in Vidusmeži workshop.