Incollect Magazine - Issue 3

2022 Incollect Magazine 95 Isabelle Sicart Galerie Carole Decombe Isabelle Sicart lives and works in Paris, where, after studying ceramics at the Graduate School of Applied Arts, she joined Lalique in 1991. Since 2004 she has been making her own ceramic objects, both unique pieces as sculpture as well as more functional designs that “combine precision and softness”, says Cecile Jeandel, a director at the gallery, “much influenced by the habitat and style and interiors of the Mediterranean world, where the colors white and black prevail.” She works primarily with clay but on occasion also with stone and metal and there is something minimal and elementary about her ceramics which are often sensuous, smooth and pleasing to sight and touch. She has worked with designer Emmanuel Levet Stenne to create table collections. British artist Vanessa Hogge is justly admired for her unique hand-sculpted porcelain vessels covered in innumerable, individually hand-made porcelain decorative details. She works intuitively, instinctively, drawing on flowers as a source of loose inspiration. Her sculptures, sometimes functional as vases or other vessels, are intricate, delicate, as well as executed with painstaking care and precision — fired at high temperatures the porcelain is “ossified” into bright, “striking shades of white”, the gallery explains. Vanessa Hogge Vessel Gallery