Ceramics and Lighting Design
Exhibition from July 1 to August 8, 2025
Opening – Friday, July 4, 2025, from 6 p.m.
Brigitte PÉCOT – From Earth to Earth…
A lover of ceramics, I began to develop an intimate relationship with clay in 1992. The pleasure of the eyes was one thing; the pleasure of giving form, understanding, and communing with the material was another, much more exhilarating one! This new relationship would become a passion. A passion that has accompanied me tirelessly throughout my professional career and my family life.
Daniel CULIS, an artistic potter in the Drôme region, and his wife Jacky, supported and encouraged me throughout this journey. Today, the majority of my work is devoted to this passion; “From Earth to Earth” was born in 2018, and the exploration continues, develops, and is shared!
My journey into unknown lands began with earthenware and glazed earthenware, creating traditional Provençal decorations through colors, but modernized in graphics. Then I encountered stoneware with its multiple facets in terms of both color and texture, and the journey took another direction! My creations are guided by highlighting the natural qualities of the materials, their authenticity, their pure nobility, and respect for what they express. They combine earth and natural materials (wood, iron, textiles); I want them to be understated and pure, like the materials that give them life.
I like to let myself be guided by what their mixture whispers to my hands. I adorn them with natural oxide engobes, engraved, sgraphite, printed, etc., whose brilliance is enhanced by touches of glaze that I prepare. The result is a simple language, naturally tribal or rock-like, true, without artifice, whose appeal lies in the beauty of the materials, magnified by the magic of firing.
Each piece is a journey, each piece is unique.
Jérémie PÉCOT – Far de Fer
“It’s obsolete treasures that bring a smile to our souls.
It’s a treasure I found, an old pile of scrap metal.
A spinning mill with a torn roof opened its doors under a cascade of brambles and ivy. Its steel entrails, its cogs, its spindles, had been lying there for twenty, thirty years perhaps.
Beneath the rust, metallic perfection appears. There’s nothing natural about it; it’s surprising. The circles are precise, the surfaces smooth, the teeth millimeter-precise, machined.
Mechanical precision.
These artifacts speak to us of the gray part of human nature; of its desires and its fears.
These pieces fascinated me.
I could have sold them by weight; I chose to bring them to light. Paper for warmth, the secret influence of the ocean, dust and time…
