Singularity & intuition
This Earth material was revealed to me 24 years ago!
I didn’t go to school, but just learned the basics in a workshop to then stand on my own feet.
Free, without brake or barrier, I then tried, tried, sometimes missed to discover new horizons and develop my own techniques.
Building on these experiences, my artistic signature is in perfect harmony with myself and connected with my deep roots.
My creativity is limitless, always guided by my desires and my intuitions. I put all my soul into it and it feels. Also, I am always struck to see the reactions of the public: the prizes I have won over time and people sometimes moved to tears.
It gives me a lot of energy to move forward and share my passion again and again.
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Christine
Débonnaire
I am Breton, from a family of tailors for several generations. My grandfather was a tailor and my mother a seamstress. Naturally, my inspiration comes from the world of fashion and haute couture.
Ceramic stylist, couture inspiration, my work is focused on femininity and elegance!
I have always wanted to move towards the visual arts. Nature, shapes, colors have always inspired me, I never went out without paper and pencil!
Later, I took evening classes at the Beaux Arts in addition to my job as an executive assistant. Today this passion has become my job since 2008, when I started exhibiting.
It all started on the creative market in Lyon. Then, driven by the positive feedback from my first clients, I continued to make myself known and develop by crisscrossing the roads of France from exhibitions to craft fairs. It was in 2018 that I joined the Ateliers d’Art de France, recognized as a true label of excellence.
I work sculpture, jewelry and decoration in an atypical way, with great finesse and lightness. The lines are both elegant and refined, yet with a high level of detail… as if it were a real fabric!
Each piece is unique, entirely hand-modeled. I work without a model, exclusively by eye. Everything is in me and is born from my hands without me really realizing it.
I love touching and getting into this material. Earthenware is smooth and soft and I really enjoy working with it.
There is a lot of poetry and sensitivity in creating objects from almost nothing.
Art is a wonderful means of communication and transmission of emotions that really does good, essential in the world we live in!
From textures to effects
It’s all in the line, the silhouette and the style: refined and yet very worked. A subtle balance between simplicity and attention to detail with always as a common thread the obvious references to haute couture.
The work of the enamel in lace effect present on many of my creations is a true artistic signature. It gives an effect of lightness and a real texture in relief pleasant to the touch.
I also use enamels with deep and bright colors.
Applied with a brush to give them multiple nuances, these enamels are truly sublimated by the light.
The different techniques of imprints and the work of the clay bring a palette of colors and textures without limit.
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