In my approach to ceramics, I try to personaly feel but also bring out the autonomy of porcelain before it takes shape. Whether there is congruence or not, there is equilibrium or break; there is folding and winding, interlacing, networking, unfolding, sinking… Like the long grass dancing outside in the wind.

The porcelain sheet is also my white sheet; as the writer’s blank sheet. It becomes covered with signs, texts, imprints left in the clay; ancestral approach.

In the present artwork, Blown by the wind (2019), the framework of my story became the woof of a fabric flapping in the wind. Evoking my recent artist residency in China, the coloured “fabric” with geometric patterns is inspired by Bainayi silk jacket (Qing Dynasty; Tsinghua University Museum, Beijing). And the two blank pages are awaiting a new story.

Text & textile. The two terms have the same etymological origin: the Latin word textus (“fabric”, “framework”, “text”), and a very close voicing in French, which allows easily sliding from one to the other.

I focused my gaze, and thereby invite that of the visitor, on the instant just before the material becomes a support: sewing support that comes to dress and embellish a body, or writing support that holds a story. That story becomes universal; mine, yours.

Born in Switzerland in 1957; has dual French/Swiss nationality.

From 1976 to 1979, she attended ceramic training courses with Claude Champy, Claire Berger and Jean Linard (France) and opened her own studio in 1980 in the Cantal, France.

Since 2019, Member of the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC)

Member of Ateliers d’Art de France (AAF)

Artist Residences:

2011: International Symposium of Ceramic, Römhild, Germany

2015: San Diego, California, USA

2017: New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

2019: Shangyu Celadon Modern International Ceramic Art Center, China

Collections:

Shangyu Museum Modern Ceramic Art Museum, Shaoxing City, China

Tsinghua University Art Museum, China

New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taïwan

York Museums Trust, York, UK

Private Collection Charles-Adrien Buéno, France

Museum Bernard Palissy, Saint-Avit, France

Museum Schloss Glücksburg, Römhild, Germany

Museum La Piscine, Roubaix, France

Museum of Melun, France

Museum of Sens, France

Departmental Archives of Seine-et-Marne, Melun, France

Collection of Ateliers d’Art de France, Paris, France

Recent Awards:

2013: Bernard Palissy Prize, Museum Bernard Palissy, Saint-Avit, France
2011: 1rst prize of the jury, Salon Contrastes, Roubaix, France
2010: 2^nd prize of the jury, potters market "Les Tupiniers du Vieux Lyon", Lyon, France
2009: 1rst prize of the jury, Salon Céramique 14, Paris, France

Solo and Group exhibitions since 1983, among others:

Tsinghua University Museum, Beijing, China; Museum of Weimar, Germany; Museum Bernard Palissy, France; Gallery Geneviève Godar, France; Gallery de l’Ô, Belgium; Ceramic Center La Borne, France; Contemporary Ceramic Center Giroussens, France; Gallery Collection AAF, France; Museum Schloss Glücksburg, Römhild, Germany; Gallery « Terra Viva », Saint-Quentin-La-Poterie, France; Ancient Pottery Gradignan, France; Cultural Center of Sèvres, France.