I opened my studio in Samois, France in 2013 after many years in the UK where I trained at the University of Creative Arts in Farnham (BA 3D Design). I have a lovely workspace in the heart of a village, nesting between the Fontainebleau forest and the Seine river, an hour south of Paris.
I design and make functional, porcelain pieces that are unique or come in small series. The shapes are simple and pure, the surfaces are soft and attractive.
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Techniques
Porcelain has specific characteristics and brings thinness, whiteness, purity, translucidity and strength. Elegant and simple, the shapes I create are a perfect complement to the wood I recently included in my work. It is a tribute to the beautiful forest surrounding my village, and forests everywhere that are mistreated.
I love using the potter’s wheel. All my porcelain pieces are thrown, turned, sometimes inlaid with a decoration of houses, or altered with cuts and perforations.
They are raw glazed on the inside, and sometimes on the outside (it is quite nerve wracking to glaze raw!), and singled-fired to the high temperature 1280C.
The mix of porcelain and wood is recent. The branches are collected in the nearby forest. I choose them for their shape and twisted look. They are clean with a metal brush and with water, then a varnish is applied for solidity. They are then drill through before being securely fixed to the porcelain with a metal rod. The string is only for decoration.
The theme around houses has been dear to me since the beginning. A house reflects both the sense of connection we feel for our home and land, but also of curiosity for unknown places and countries. A house is a place that is essential to all, and each individual will transform and adapt the space to make it its own, to make it ‘hygge’, as described so accurately by the Scandinavians. A house is a reflection of oneself.
The workshop and the making of a cup
2020
The workshop in Samois
2018
