Description
This porcelain tumbler with a branch detail from Joëlle Déry’s Sfumato collection is wheel-thrown and shaped by hand in her studio at Le Vivoir in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. Its softly diffused decoration evokes the sfumato technique through gradual, atmospheric transitions that highlight the porcelain’s delicacy and translucency.
- Artist: Joëlle Déry
- Wheel-thrown and hand-shaped porcelain
- Made in the artist’s studio at Le Vivoir in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
- One-of-a-kind handmade piece
- Dimensions: 4 x 3¾ x 3½"
The sculptural branch detail is moulded from a real branch, preserving its organic texture in porcelain.
Because each piece is handmade, its shape, decoration and nuances may vary slightly from the piece shown, giving every object its own character.
Upkeep
Hand wash with mild soap and a soft sponge. Avoid abrasive cleaners and sudden temperature changes. Hold the tumbler by its body rather than by the porcelain branch detail.
The artist
Joëlle Déry
Tourville
The fullness that I feel in contact with wide open spaces is at the heart of my research. The horizon line, the mountains in the clouds and the fog are elements that permeate my imagination and facilitate my contact with material. These impressions result in a fine and delicate work of porcelain that I like for its aesthetic qualities which are close to paper. Light is an actor in its own in my installations. It highlights the transparency, the fine details and the range of shades of porcelain.
It is with the help of new technologies that I can work more and more on the thinness and delicacy of it. I work with a 3D printer and a laser cutter. This equipment allows me precision and details reproduction that I could not obtain otherwise.
Through my pieces, I try to express the duality between fragility and solidity as well as the ephemeral and the eternal. Ceramic possesses this dualism in itself: sometimes flexible and plastic, sometimes solid and persistent. My creations are staged inclusively as I arrange them in space so that the public is part of the work. The viewer then becomes a participant and leads me to see my own projects from another angle.