Featured ceramists

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Laurence is graduated with a translator Degree (English-Chinese), Paris. She is living in Champasak (Laos) to practice primitive pottery in her tropical garden on Mekong river bank. She animates a modeling workshop for her neighboring. Her creations are inspired from Asiatic arts, a 25 years passion.

Michael is specialized in large wheel thrown pots , jars , masks and sculptures. His designs are classically inspired from my studies of ancient Etruscan, Roman, and Greek ceramic forms. Recent work takes inspiration from Chinese and S.E. Asian influences.

Hadrian, a stoneware potter who resides in the philippines works with a fearless and audacious search for the unusual and indigenous forms, including expressionistic and abstract shapes. He received the prestigious 1996-97 Anne and Arnold Abramson Award for Excellence in Ceramics from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC and most recently, the 2007-2009 Toyota Foundation Grant of the Asian Neighbors Network program.

Armand is a ceramologist working for CNRS in Lyon, he works in close collaboration with the EFEO. He run many firing regarding ancient techniques and master very well reduction firings and reduction kilns building. His knowledge regarding ancient ceramics is very precious for us.

Michael Pugh is a self taught potter, a child of the university of life. Originally working in a very primitive situation, Michael dug wild clays and built and fired his kilns with wood. He now pots in a new studio using white stone ware clay, firing with gas and producing colorful  decorative domestic ware. His inspiration comes from the oceanic creatures and marine vegetation which he incorporates as designs in cobalts and copper.

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