Why not play ?

After focusing on soft and harmonious glazes and shapes, I decided to play a bit and to use the defects that I encountered during my ceramic career. I started to concentrate on pieces with “materials” with varied textures, craters, cracks, puffinesses, all what is usually refered to as “defects

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While keeping portions of tranquillity with enamels as perfect as possible.

I had already made paintings with engobes on enamel, additions of sand, mica etc. but the operation was facilitated: as pictures are fired horizontaly, additions do not risk to fall on the plates of the kiln.

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For example, an engobe should normally be in adequacy with its support so that it has a good adhesion. I am looking rather for it to get loose, swells up, to melt more or less, in other words to live.

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