Sylvie du Plessis

Sculptor and ceramist, Sylvie du Plessis works the land, gives form and life through the attitudes of men and women she meets or she imagines, on the beach or poolside, at sea, on boats or on land, ground handling.

His tendency artistic expressionism, and by his mastery of the technique of Raku, it gives each of its unique sculptures magnified by strong contrasts between the minerals.

Technique of Raku

The raku firing process is found in Korea and developed in Japan in the 16th century.

The rooms, already cooked once (biscuits), are enamelled and annealed again at 1000 degrees.

The pieces are glazed and annealed directly from the oven at 1000 ° C, they are glowing and then undergo a very important heat shock that causes cracks in the enamel, then they are quickly covered with flammable materials such as natural sawdust compacted wood to create heavy smoke on the clay and the glaze melt.

The land under the incandescent dust, smoke absorbs carbon formation. This phase is the reaction "redox".

It is during this phase appear the colors more or less metallic, cracks and the effect of smoking out areas of land that characterizes non-glazed ceramic such is called "the Raku".