Amy Beaudroit makes pots for keeping. Growing up on a farm in the south of France taught her that ordinary objects carry memory and that is what she is reaching for: pieces made not for display, but for hands and tables and daily use. Pieces that might still matter to someone decades from now.
She came to clay through painting. For ten years she exhibited abstract landscapes, with work held in the permanent collections of the Museu da Cidade in Aveiro, Portugal, and PARI in North Carolina, and a stipend residency at the Art Centre in Kokkola, Finland. In 2012, during a residency in North Carolina, someone put her at a wheel, and that was that.
Largely self-taught in ceramics, she works in stoneware and local wild clay, decorating with found materials: feathers, beach debris, mussel shells for burnishing, and mixing glazes from wild clay and volcanic ash gathered on hikes. Wood firing has become an important part of her practice, drawn to its communal tradition and to what flame adds that she cannot plan for: the meeting point of intention and accident.
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