Coline Riviere
Statement
I am a loyal and enthusiastic hand builder. Delighted in the entire process.
Using favored materials and the ageless techniques of clay hand building and culminating in organic forms suggestive of daily objects such as baskets or water gourds.
I aim to seduce while exploring the fragile boundaries of strength and fragility, shape and pattern, resilience and vulnerability. Perceptions of containers with the lure of seduction, sensuality and natural substance. Motivated by encounters of aesthetics and textures, shape and pattern,
my work is formed by subtle gestures connecting form and surface
with reverential notions of the vessel and the origins of historical ceramic objects.
Assigning generous filled graphic areas near simple raw clay surfaces and
similar to a monoprint process, I draw with underglaze and paint the designs with colored slips. Simplified depictions of landscape, seascape on rounded then deformed contours.
I explore my curiosities and preserve a technically challenging studio work.
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Clay finds itself all around us whether we realize it or not. From rustic domestic pots to fine elegant tableware used and passed down to futur generations to decorative home inspirations such as walls and floors seen and felt clay in some form envelopes us. Ceramics has character and elegance, is both fragile and strong; at moments it is naturally white and at others boastfully colorful.
Welcome to my world.
