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Hi Suk Jeon-Ronin
Hi Suk Jeon-Ronin
 
 

I'm a ceramicist. I'm a Korean born French. I recently settled down in the Perigord area in the south of France.
I create mostly contemporary sandstone artworks.

I have been lucky enough to practice three of the most famous pottery techniques: Korean, Japanese and French.
Several years of studies and hands-on in Korea and France, then later in Japan with a Master enable me Today to blend techniques and styles.

I hold a few exhibitions, sometimes with other ceramicists, sometimes with painters, in Seoul as well as in Tokyo or Paris, and now in the Perigord area.

I have also been teaching pottery making in France, particularly within the framework of the Paris Cultural Activities.

 

 
 
 
 

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The potter's job

The potter's job is remarkable in many ways.

  • First of all, our main tool is our hands. Do you know of any more sophisticated tool?
    • operate with mute voice command,
    • versatile,
    • obedient,
    • acurate,
    • imaginative,
    • inventive,
    • able to improvise,
    • precise,
    • never out of order,
    • always coming by pair...
  • Then, our raw material is clay. Clay also is remarkable.
    • noble,
    • abundant on earth,
    • no polluting,
    • substantially away from commercialism (unlisted at the Chicago Commodity Stock Exchange!),
    • and above all, it is a material pleasant to the touch, which links us physically to our planet Earth. Handling clay, it's a little renewing with the ancien man for which the contact with earth was permanent.
  • On the other hand, Potter is not a romantic job. Do you know that to make a Korean jar of about 50 cm high, about 40 kg of clay are required? You also need a significant amount of strength to transform a block of clay into a racy and stylish pot: strength from your arms, your wrists, your hands, and also your leg should you use a manual potter's wheel!

    As to the Hand, if only you knew what their are enduring! The prolonged contact with wet clay iritates their skin, the sustained efforts cause pains and tendinitis, grog clay abrades them, in short, it's a job which damages hands (especially my female hands) !

  • Anyway, it is a job I like, much demanding but which rewards me so much.            .
    Believe me, I could'nt do without it!
  
 
 
 

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 My new collections

 

  
 

 

 

My 2010 collection (bottles and bamboos)

  
 
 
 

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 At work

 

  
 

 

 

Enameling the 2010 collection (tea pots)

  
 
 
 

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 My workshops

 

  
 

 

 

2010: my new workshop in Lissac is a XIX century vaulted cellar

  
 
 
 

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Filling in the kiln

  
 
 
 

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My first workshop in Lissac

  
 
 
 

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My first workshop in Lissac

  
 

 

 

Workshop immortalized by Salvatore Verniti

  
 
 
 

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My previous workshops in Korea, Japan and France.

  
 
 
 

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  CASA magazin, February 2002

 

  
 

 

CASA magazin, February 2002, page 1/4

  
 
 
 

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CASA magazin, February 2002, page 2/4

  
 
 
 

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CASA magazin February 2002 page 3/4

  
 
 
 

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CASA magazin February 2002 page 4/4

  
 
 
 

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 My address!

 

  
 

 

 

Pay me a visit!

  
 
 
 

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