Jean-Claude Canonne

"Escale" glazed stoneware painting

2019

Graduated in 1969 from the National School of Applied Arts for Industry (ENSAA), he followed a versatile training: sculpture, modeling, fresco, ceramics, interior architecture, goldsmithing, etc.; as well as courses on color, drawing, composition, technologies, and Art history. From 1974 to 1977 – curious to learn and master the technique and aesthetic power of ceramics, he practiced decoration: low- and high-fire earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, cloisonné enamels, lusters and gold, etc., under Jean Hury - Auguste Renoir Technical High School, Paris. From 1978 to 1981 – he trained in calligraphy at the Eastern Painting Academy (Cernuschi Museum) with Master UNG NO LEE. From 1982 to 1983 : Dupéré School, he perfected skills in ceramic molding, model design, molds, casting and statuary stamping techniques, with André Féard. The training included courses in physical chemistry, geology, and mineralogy. From 1983 to 1994, he was a ceramics teacher at CREAR - Center for Artistic Training, near Chantilly, training many ceramists who are now established throughout France and abroad. Starting in 1984, he worked with Daniel de Montmollin's approach on 'The Practice of Stoneware Glazes,' developing it and conducting extensive research on glazes. The expertise of Jean-Claude Canonne is unique and it is registered as part of the national heritage by the French Ministry of Culture. In 1996 Jean-Claude Canonne opened his workshop and devoted himself to his own creations on a wide variety of themes: - Large-format trunks for intimate shelter; decorative furniture boxes, utility boxes for secrets - Imaginary boats, in stoneware and porcelain, inspired by the shapes created by water and man, tools of passage from one shore to the other. - Paintings, a synthesis of his long training, including engraving, enamel decorations, layering - Landscape mountains, both real and abstract, sometimes concealing an imaginary "view": trees, skies, water reflections, tiny characters...