2024

ATELIER DE POTERIE

Arts and crafts

Jean-Louis Nigon and Monique Lesbroussart share this workshop in the village of Savignies, which until the beginning of the th century was an important centre for the production of pottery. We even found parts dating back to the th century! They manufacture crockery (from "utilitarian pottery"), but also more personal stoneware or ceramic works with Renaissance motifs. Jean-Louis Nigon is known among others for his épis of couille which, for him, are a pretext for a sculpture. Cats, cocks, or even squirrels coming out of the potter's oven are watching the roof of the houses.

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