Alice Colonieu au pays des céramiques

Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Marseille, Alice Colonieu (1924-2010) was immediately attracted to ceramics, which she felt was the best medium for her aesthetic and plastic expression. Under the guidance of Émilie Decanis and after training at the Fontcarrade school, she moved to the Vaucluse to pursue an artistic career in the heart of her family's terroir.

Powerful and independent, Alice Colonieu is fully in line with the freedom of post-war French ceramics, whose style is rooted in the richness and continuity of popular arts and traditions, as much a break with the sophistication and purity of the aesthetic of the 1930s as with the influences of the Far East. From the outset, she passionately modelled works of ambitious dimensions. She delighted in modifying her glazes for very personal purposes, favouring bright colours, superimpositions and drips, in order to create a generosity of material that reinforced the plasticity of her forms.

This book presents the work of this ceramist, whose artistic career has been in dialogue with her family land.