About
Johanne has always taken huge pleasure from the process of creating, so her first lesson on a wheel was the discovery of something completely absorbing and intensely satisfying. It came at a time when she was looking for a means of self expression and freedom and once she had made her first tiny vase in porcelain, she was hooked on the beauty of the material.
Johanne’s practice is all about exploring and pushing her limits and those of porcelain, discovering its fragile beauty and inherent strength. By subjecting it to the intense forces of throwing, stretching and altering she seeks to walk the fine line between control and surrender, pushing the clay almost to the point of collapse. Sometimes the clay resists and the outcome is never certain; cracks form unexpectedly and curves fold and collapse, but the more precarious the process is, the more satisfying the result.
