Collection: BERARD Christine

Christine Bérard explores clay as a territory of expression and sensation. After a long creative journey, she has found in ceramics an essential medium, both raw and sensitive.

Her work revolves around terra sigillata and wood firing, two techniques she revisits with a resolutely contemporary approach. Each piece is the result of a dialogue between material, gesture, and fire. Coil shaping, polishing, layering sigillata, and firing give her works a unique presence, marked by texture and light. Christine Bérard favors simplicity and authenticity. She seeks a balance between control and randomness, letting the fire complete what the hand has begun. Natural nuances, surface variations, and traces left by the flame become visual signatures.

Her creations, at the crossroads of sculpture and ceramics, exude a quiet strength. They evoke a deep connection with the elements—earth, air, water, and fire—in an aesthetic that is both timeless and deeply rooted in the present.