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Exhibition | Jean-Nicolas Gérard | 2022

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Join Max Waterhouse as he shows us Jean-Nicolas Gérard’s latest major exhibition at Goldmark. He gives a personal story about a broken bowl and his own experiences with Jean-Nicolas’ incredible work.

A Unique Gift

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The sureness of hand and eye gives the work a childlike spontaneity only mastered through years of experience. This is the third solo exhibition of Jean-Nicolas Gérard’s pots at Goldmark. What more can usefully be written? I suspect many of the gallery’s patrons are already converted, enthusiastic to see his latest works. They will not […]

Pottery of Great Humanity

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His work offers solace, not as something into which we may withdraw or retreat, but as a pottery that sustains through its form, through its warmth and confidence, and through the food it so naturally holds for us. His is pottery of great humanity; for it gives us the earth. My sister once told me […]

In Conversation | Jean-Nicolas Gérard | Part 1

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French slipware potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard talks about the inspiration he has drawn from local Provençal pottery and the countryside around his Valensole home. He speaks of the joy of making utilitarian ware to be used and enjoyed everyday, the influence of Japanese pottery, the decorative techniques that he employs and his need for spontaneity, focus and […]

Profile | Jean-Nicolas Gérard: The Potter’s Potter

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Jean-Nicolas Gérard has been working from his studio in the south of France for over 15 years now, producing loose, lively terre vernissée – the French term for slip-decorated earthenware – and enlivening the local Provençal traditions of slipware pottery.