A
DAY with
Léa Bigot is a ceramic artist, who was born in Reunion Island, in the Indian ocean. From there, she kept the incredible feeling of being a tiny drop in a big and strong natural world with her. Growing up worshiping nature as the source of energy, her work is linked to the materialisation of how she pictures this energy: strong and free.
I have three types of days. Days outside walking in the forest or swimming in the sea. Days inside, at home, to process and explore further by reading or drawing. And the days at the studio, trying to picture all of it in a shape.
Outside
I discovered that being outside is a huge part of my inner energy. I get easily overwhelmed by emotions and walking in wild places just seems to restore my center. Being surrounded by life makes a connexion possible between me and my inner self.
I go to the forest, and look at the trees through the eye of the pond.
Or I bike to the Anse de la Fausse Monnaie to dive from the sun into the mediterranean sea.
Everytime I am reminded of how small my life is compared to Nature. This feeling puts everything in perspective.
At Home
I write a lot each time I need to project myself into the future I have to go through drawings and writings. I have tons of notebooks filled with ideas that I may find again later. For instance, I like to note what I’m thinking during the reading of certain books and I make lots of lists registering feelings, wants, material and I draw everything that I imagine. It is all a big jigsaw puzzle of what I am feeling at the moment.
This is where I cut myself from the world. Keeping my phone in plane mode, I draw, I visualise.
And I sculpt. I use music as a current that will lift me to a certain spirit when my hand is steady.
I love to listen to my friend Karim Bousalem playlist CAFE CREME, it has a refreshing diversity of rhythms and influences from all over the world.
I like to have my work surrounding me, it allows me to keep growing my own landscape.
I usually have two or three sculptures in progress at the same time as each step of making has to be followed by a drying time.
I start by making the overall shape and refine it as it dries.
My process is really an intuitive one. I’ve never studied ceramics but I sharpen my knowledge about it each day working with it.
A
DAY with
Léa Bigot is a ceramic artist, who was born in Reunion Island, in the Indian ocean. From there, she kept the incredible feeling of being a tiny drop in a big and strong natural world with her. Growing up worshiping nature as the source of energy, her work is linked to the materialisation of how she pictures this energy: strong and free.
I have three types of days. Days outside walking in the forest or swimming in the sea. Days inside, at home, to process and explore further by reading or drawing. And the days at the studio, trying to picture all of it in a shape.
Outside
I discovered that being outside is a huge part of my inner energy. I get easily overwhelmed by emotions and walking in wild places just seems to restore my center. Being surrounded by life makes a connexion possible between me and my inner self.
I go to the forest, and look at the trees through the eye of the pond.
Or I bike to the Anse de la Fausse Monnaie to dive from the sun into the mediterranean sea.
Everytime I am reminded of how small my life is compared to Nature. This feeling puts everything in perspective.
At Home
I write a lot each time I need to project myself into the future I have to go through drawings and writings. I have tons of notebooks filled with ideas that I may find again later. For instance, I like to note what I’m thinking during the reading of certain books and I make lots of lists registering feelings, wants, material and I draw everything that I imagine. It is all a big jigsaw puzzle of what I am feeling at the moment.
This is where I cut myself from the world. Keeping my phone in plane mode, I draw, I visualise.
And I sculpt. I use music as a current that will lift me to a certain spirit when my hand is steady.
I love to listen to my friend Karim Bousalem
playlist CAFE CREME, it has a refreshing diversity
of rhythms and influences from all over the world.
I like to have my work surrounding me, it allows me to keep growing my own landscape.
I usually have two or three sculptures in progress at the same time as each step of making has to be followed by a drying time.
I start by making the overall shape and refine it as it dries.
My process is really an intuitive one. I’ve never studied ceramics but I sharpen my knowledge about it each day working with it.