In 1980, Marie could no longer resist the call of clay. It couldn’t be otherwise as she was sharing a potter’s life.

She started with stoneware and fired her creations in a wood kiln. Modelling, she realized sculptures inspired by nature, and next, women busts and bodies.

Today, she is entirely devoted to raku and smoked clay, working from torn sheets of clay. Thus, like a mason, she creates rough objects deprived of artifices that only the gold of the smoking process illuminates. A first firing at 1020° is followed by an enamel firing at 1000° and at last the taking out of the kiln with very long tongs. Then comes an ephemeral moment of pleasure, the outcome of a labour without calculation nor premeditation… and yet, in the beginning, there is freedom.