We welcome you to our community-run shop, which brings together 12 potters from the greater Southwest region, located right across from the famous Saint-Pierre Abbey in Moissac.
Fanny Cavin, a ceramicist working in the Hautes-Pyrénées, will display her pieces in the shop window.
“I create tableware using slip-cast porcelain—sometimes(…)
We welcome you to our community-run shop, which brings together 12 potters from the greater Southwest region, located right across from the famous Saint-Pierre Abbey in Moissac.
Fanny Cavin, a ceramicist working in the Hautes-Pyrénées, will display her pieces in the shop window.
“I create tableware using slip-cast porcelain—sometimes white, sometimes colored throughout the clay.
I am deeply inspired by the flight of migratory birds; the swarms of starlings, known as ‘murmurs,’ move me deeply. The multitude of individuals, their trajectories, and their movements lead me to patterns—more or less abstract—which I engrave with a scalpel, a point, or stamps. I apply an engobe to the “patterned” areas and then remove the excess engobe. The color then remains only within the incisions of the patterns. This is the Mishima technique.
The shapes of my pieces, simple and functional, provide a space for my associations to express themselves. In them, I explore contrasts of color, texture, and sensation: the dialogue between the glazed, smooth surfaces and the rougher, matte, and grainy surfaces of the applied engobe.”
Mathieu Hettema is the guest member of our association, Terres Neuves du Sud-Ouest. You can also continue to discover Julia Canton’s unique pieces throughout this month.
Mathieu Hettema is based in Giroussens in the Tarn. “I experiment with different clays, sizes, shapes, textures, and glazes to give each piece its own personality, which is sometimes enhanced by the effects of firing in a wood-fired kiln.”
Updated on 15 April 2026
