Details

First Name

Tinne

Last Name

Debruijne

Nickname

Tinne

Social Media

My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do

Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting, Slip casting, Everything to do with Ceramics

Clay body

Stoneware, Porcelain

Clay Brand

Ceradel

Kiln Type

Electric Kiln

Temperature

1270

Glaze

Transparent glaze
Colored porcelain with stains

You can buy my work from

http://www.tinnedebruijne.com

About Me

Introduction

I’m Tinne Debruijne, a Belgian ceramic artist living and working in SW of France. I mainly work on paper porcelain sculptures. I also teach and organize workshops in our beautiful B&B. The workshops I teach are paper porcelain and recently I started with a basic course for people who never touched clay. I love the combination of teaching and working on my own sculptures.

What inspires me

I find inspiration in the most diverse things; ranging from the sensuality of a body, a curve of an elegant shoe around a foot, voluminous folds in a beautiful silk evening dress, a voluptuous mass of autumn leaves and sculptural couture to the endless applications of Nanotechnology, natural fractals and the scientific exploration of new materials (MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts, USA).

What I'm working on at the moment

I mainly work on paper porcelain sculptures.

My Artist Statement

(Experience)

I work very intuitively with shapes, inspired by natural elements and living organisms. Often sensual and yet abstract.

Although my creations have the clean lines of the modernist aesthetic in their larger contours, I complicate them with textures and rhythms, an effect that makes the work come alive in a still movement, like a fluid form that confirms itself in one moment.

The interaction with the spectator is paramount. The attraction from the object. An emotion that arises and that creates the urge to hold, embrace, feel and get closer. It will be a sensory experience.

(Detail)

My work never seems finished. Frayed, raw and delicate. A constant search for texture, which is inextricably linked to the shape, creates an extra dimension that is indispensable. Perfect in its imperfections.

(Inspiration)

I find inspiration in the most diverse things; ranging from the sensuality of a body, a curve of an elegant shoe around a foot, voluminous folds in a beautiful silk evening dress, a voluptuous mass of autumn leaves and sculptural couture to the endless applications of Nanotechnology, natural fractals and the scientific exploration of new materials (MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts, USA).

My CV

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 1994 – 1996 / independent interieur architect (BE)
  • 1996 – 1997 / webdesigner at Allmansland (BE)
  • 1997 – 1999 / designer at The Best Of Publishing (BE)
  • 1999 – 2001 / webdesigner at IconMedialab (BE)
  • 2001 – 2007 / senior webdesigner at Boondoggle (BE)
  • 2008 – 2013 / independent ceramist / own studio (USA)
  • 2013 – present / independent ceramist / own studio (France)
  • 2020 – present / Teaching 5-day workshops “Paper porcelain: perfect in its imperfections” (FR)
  • 2021 – present / Teaching “Basics of handbuilding and decoration” (FR)

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