Handmade piece from Nathalie Reocreux's workshop.
What Nathalie Reocreux loves most about ceramics is experimentation. Gathering materials, grinding them, pounding them, sifting them, mixing them, and revealing them through flame.
Nathalie Reocreux uses clays that she collects around her home in Brittany or during her travels, but also clays that come from small farms. The process is very long: she removes the largest pebbles and debris by pressing the earth between her fingers. The ceramist leaves the rest, which creates decoration during firing.
Nathalie also uses materials she finds to make her glazes (granite, quartz, schist, hematite, wood and plant ashes...).
A production that takes time and allows her to be guided by randomness.
MATERIALS: Mix of Châteaubriant clay and Baillet earth
FIRING: Five days of firing in an anagama kiln
TECHNIQUE: Hand-modeled
GLAZE: Glaze created by ash accumulation during firing
COLOR: iridescent brown with shades of black, red
DIMENSIONS: Ø 20cm, height 8cm
USES AND CARE:
Dishwasher safe: Yes
Oven safe: No
Food safe: Yes
