About
Who I am
Born on a small island in the New Hebrides and then lived for 6 years in Noumea, I then continued my studies in Paris.
Manual activities have always been part of my life: culinary art, tempera painting (10 years at Hélène Legrand des Beaux-Arts) and on porcelain, sewing and even embroidery.
A few years ago, I discovered a completely different world, that of ceramics. This attraction has increased tenfold from year to year, because for the first time I found an activity that exactly reflected the creative freedom I was looking for. Thus, I obtained my CAP in Ceramic Turning from the Chemin de la Céramique workshop in Montreuil in 2020. I set up my workshop in the Basque Country the same year, in a place particularly conducive to creation.
My artistic approach
My path has become clearer this last year with the mastery of the turning technique to concentrate on the desire to paint again, no longer on a canvas but on my pieces: objects in volume, which occupy space, like landscapes which invite themselves into our interior.
The landscapes of the Basque Country and the pine forests of the Landes constitute an infinite source of inspiration which awakens my artistic creativity.
Technical
Turning sandstone (white and black) to obtain round and ovoid shapes linked to nature.
Here I mix several decorative techniques, which plunges me into a certain urgency in the creative process according to the different states that the clay imposes on me (raw consistency, leather, biscuit and enamel firing).
The common thread of my work is nature, I capture its colors, its light like a photographer who captures a moment in his photo, taking a fact out of its original context to put it in an interpreted context and immortalize it and solicit the gaze.
Like a painter on his canvas, I work with different mediums such as engobe, oxide juices which are like an echo of acrylic and watercolor. The final rendering of the enamel is similar to oil painting.