Claude Champy (born September 12, 1944 at Plaisir/Yvelines) is a French

ceramist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take varied forms, including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art. While ...

. 1963/64 Claude Champy was taught in drawing at the Atelier Met de Penninghen et Jacques d’Andon, a private art school in Paris. 1964–1968 he studied ceramics with Pierre Fouquet at the École des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris. 1965 he stayed at La Borne where he met the leading ceramists at this time and in 1967 he built his first wood-fired kiln on his parents’ estate in Plaisir. For two years, in 1971/72 he worked at a faïence factory in Clichy and finally set up his own workshop in Plaisir in 1973, where built a second wood-fired kiln, which was renewed in 1985. Claude Champy's work consists of stoneware and porcelain vessels and objects fired in wood-fired kilns; at first exactly thrown vases and bowls with glazes applied in layers, often with a light coat on a darker ground. Later on he increasingly modelled and altered his vessels, which now tend to be larger and became vessel objects with double walls and perforation. He also makes wall plaques or large jar objects with minimal interior and heavy, fitted lids and furrowed, carinated powerfully worked surfaces, here, too, often coated in light crimson or salmon-coloured glazes as well as celadon glazes on a dark, glazed ground, trickled, dripped and thrown with brushes and ladles. Since 1980 Claude Champy is a member of IAC Geneva. In 1988, he received the Grand Prix of the

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. At that time he formed links with Japanese ceramists and also created

Raku ware is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies, most often in the form of '' chawan'' tea bowls. It is traditionally characterised by being hand-shaped rather than thrown, fairly porous vessels, which result from lo ...

. His works are part of the Charles-Adrien Buéno's collection.

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