Catherine ANDRES - Poterie Saint-Laurenterre

Since I was very young, my choice for my "professional future" was oriented towards clay, pottery, ceramics..
The good thinking and "common sense" of my parents led me to dental prosthesis... which I practiced for nearly 25 years.
In my thirties, clay came back to awaken my sensations.
It is little by little in contact with the creators "general public" that I built myself. It took me more than 10 years of participation and animation of groups in workshops of realization of pottery, to mature my capacities.
No great studies in the great French or foreign schools of arts and crafts, nor grace or divinity incarnated by a god or disciple of clay.
It is by desire and conviction that I realized myself in pottery.
The passage by a diploma of turner to the CNIFOP seemed to me preponderant before my installation as a professional.
From the start, I chose the gas firing of high temperature glazes in reduction, convinced that it is the best method to allow me to accomplish myself fully.
My creations were at first mainly utilitarian and I realize that I realize more and more objects of decoration.
Over the years, my patience, my high standards and my many attempts have allowed me to evolve in the mysteries of the creation of high temperature enamels.
From my creations, a thread emerges, a sort of touch, a way of doing things, which little by little, creates my signature or my identification.