SOPHIE VAIDIE

SOPHIE VAIDIE HAS BEEN A CERAMIC ARTIST FOR OVER 20 YEARS. HER CAREER HAS LED HER TO EXPLORE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES, NOTABLY DURING A JOURNEY THROUGH ASIA IN 2011.
IN CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN, SHE MET MASTER CERAMIC ARTISTS SUCH AS SEUNG HO YANG AND KATO HIROSHIGE, WHO ENRICHED HER PRACTICE AND BROADENED HER CREATIVE HORIZONS.
BACK IN FRANCE, SHE REFined HER SKILLS IN HAND BUILDING UNDER PATRICIA VIELJEUX, THEN IN PINCHING TECHNIQUE WITH LAETITIA PINEDA. THESE TWO APPROACHES SHAPED A WORKING PHILOSOPHY BASED ON SLOWNESS, PRECISION AND A BALANCE BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND FUNCTION.
SHE CREATES UNIQUE PIECES SUCH AS BOWLS, VASES, CUPS OR LAMPS, PLAYING WITH SCALE AND FORM, INSPIRED BY ANCIENT AND TRADITIONAL REFERENCES, TO CREATE TIMELESS, POETIC AND EMOTIONAL OBJECTS.