Alfonso Hidalgo Góngora is currently the representative of a centenary ceramics tradition in the city of Úbeda. He has dedicated his entire life to the craft of clay, inheriting ancient methods and mastering the technique until he has reached an absolute mastery of the craft,… which, unfortunately, few have nowadays. 

His workshop is one of the few with traditional furnaces and with someone with the necessary knowledge to fire pieces in them. The manufacture is always artisanal, no piece is exactly the same to the next; they are similar in quality, but always unique. 

Alfonso carries out works his grandfather left him as a legacy, some of them related to the field of construction, such as the manufacture of roof tiles, tiles or athanors. Today it is difficult to find these types of elements of significant calibre turned by hand. 

He also carries out other ceramic works which are traditional from the region of Úbeda, with their characteristic intense green colour, which he has improved over hundreds of firings. 

Moreover, his potter’s workshop stands out because of the manufacture of hundreds of tiling murals spread throughout the Spanish geography: from signage for streets for different cities, representation murals, socles, finishes for dwellings…He works using different ceramics techniques such as the cuerda seca (dry cord technique), glazing bajo cubierta, or the slipware technique.