artist/ Pouchain

France

Dominique Pouchain, ceramist, sculptor.
The gesture is simple. It’s that of the potters of old. From an ancestral tradition even older than that of the Dieulefit region where he was born in 1956. It’s an archaic gesture. It wasn’t he who seduced the earth, but the earth that gradually conquered him… The wheel, stamping, engobe, alquifoux: he has used all the tools and materials at his disposal. The clean lines of his work speak volumes about the inner ridge of his work. Between light and shadow, for a man who knows that one inevitably calls forth the other. And vice versa…” Lorette Nobécourt
Dominique Pouchain began his apprenticeship in 1973 in his parents’ workshop
workshop of her parents, Jacques and Rolande Pouchain. His father was a ceramist and painter, his mother a decorator. He registered as a craftsman with the Chambre des Métiers in 1977, producing utilitarian pottery.
utilitarian pottery; he soon moved on to his first animal sculptures. The oxide juice he uses is one of the distinctive features of his work, a signature. Pieces of deep, matte
that absorbs the light.