Jeanne Sarah Bellaiche
The choice of sandstone is intuitive, sensitive rather than technical.
Jeanne Sarah Bellaiche is a French ceramist, born in 1980. She studied at the National School of Applied Arts Olivier de Serres in Paris in ceramic design section and industrial design section. To answer the deep need to work the material, she also has training on ceramic-turning and glaze chemistry. For ten years she taught in technical secondary school while working to master the technique in her studio.
Always poetic in her creations, Jeanne Sarah Bellaiche's works are fascinating, expressive and delicate ceramic sculptures of women in motion. She will explore, in the south of India, during a year, a new repertoire of forms for black pieces and she will practice the cooking of smoking out. Decorated with plant motifs and arabesques, her creations become like little creatures, with an inside and an outside, an appearance and a dark face, a skin and an interiority.
Since 2009, the artist presents her creations in many events organized in France around ceramics. In 2010, Jeanne Sarah opened her own workshop "Terracotta Rotates" located in the center of Finistere. She develops a universe around the idea of the carapace, moulting, the shell. Her stoneware ceramics then become a metaphor for what we watch or abandon when we start to talk about. They speak of dialogue, revisited traditions, silence and appearances.