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Alistair Danhieux

  • Ceramicist
  • Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, France
  • Master Artisan
Alistair Danhieux Ceramicist
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Ceramics shaped by adventure

  • • Alistair opened his workshop in 2007
  • • He defines his work as ceramic art
  • • He lives in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, a major pottery centre in France

After completing his education in Britain, Alistair Danhieux travelled extensively in Europe, India, and West Africa. He finally settled in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye in 2003 and opened a workshop with his wife in 2007. Through his work he tries to create a language and identity using shapes and decorations. Around 2014, Alistair started using high firing stoneware and porcelain, as a medium to create his hand painted black and white vessels. The motifs are the result of hours spent drawing and inspired by his many travels and the different cultures he discovered, ranging from Tibetan mandalas and Indian mehndi designs to traditional tattoos. They are original and painted freehand.

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Works

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Photo: ©Lola-Hakimian
Beddgellert

This is a very large white ceramic vessel, thrown on the wheel using coils. It has hand painted black motifs which invoke topographic maps. The inside of the vessel is glazed in black.

Photo: ©AnthonyGirardi
Vessel form

This is a large hand thrown and coiled vessel with an open top and a hand turned walnut rim. It boasts a black on white hand painted floral design evoking roses. The inside is glazed black.

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Arrout

This is a large jar made by throwing and coiling on the wheel, with a hand turned walnut collar and a flowing hand painted black motif on a white surface.

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Two round vessels

These two round vessels were hand thrown using coils. They both have small openings at the top made of hand turned walnut wood.

Photo: ©Lola-Hakimian
Very large open vessel

This very large open vessel thrown on the wheel using coils is decorated with a meandering black on white hand painted motif and black glazed interior.

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