Pascale Morin

By Rita

Ceramicist

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Pascale Morin©By Rita

A love story

Pascale is a visual artist and ceramicist
Her favourite material is porcelain
She opened her workshop By Rita in 2014

Pascale Morin started ceramics having previously worked as an illustrator, scenographer and visual artist creating paper objects. In 2014 she purchased her own kiln and opened her workshop By Rita. Her work is inspired by the emotion of life, which she wishes to represent through her craft. A passionate craftswoman, she describes the creation of a piece as an irrepressible need to express with her hands through the material and the work: "the start of the process is like an urgency to create, and the baking of the clay is filled with quivering and excitement." When talking about clay, Pascale describes a true love story with a living material, a partner in creation with whom she must dialogue in order to go forward and bring to life her creations.

Interview

Pascale Morin©By Rita

What brought you to porcelain?: The porcelain sculptures were born out of a desire to see my drawings transformed into sculptures. I was trained by a ceramicist with whom I experimented the different possibilities of expressing myself with clay, to finally discover porcelain, which I have never left.
How long does a piece take you to create?: I would say a lifetime, but more seriously between three hours and a week depending on the work. My latest pieces are the result of research into the materials, textures, and the traces or scars that personalise us and shape us. It’s about observing our universe and our own nature.
What do you like most about your work?: When the idea of a piece is growing, becoming. When the work becomes urgent, this impatience is a magical moment, alone in front of this wet loaf of clay full of possibilities. My hands, my fingers, my arms, as if remote-controlled, assemble my piece, shape it.
What do people not know about your craft?: I think people don't realise how much of who I am is in my pieces. They don't know how well the porcelain and I know each other; it's as alive as I am and sometimes has a bad temper. If I don't respect it, it's going to do what it wants, it is an exchange.

Pascale Morin is an expert artisan: she began her career in 2010