Welcome to my brand new site - take a good look around ! You'll see it's a bit like one of those new towns that sprout up: some of the roads are still being built, some places are empty, others already overcrowded and there are areas you'll want to visit again. As time goes on it will continue to grow and come to life. Alongside my profile, drawn up by Antoine d'Albis, are to be found all the technical details of my life (biography, bibliography, etc.).The aim of this site is for you to share with my creating items in the workshop, with my thoughts, with my passion for ceramics throughout the ages and continents and, through my publications, with the work of my contemporaries. The aim is for you to visit my works and discover the items I have created during my thirty years as a ceramicist, some of which are carefully housed in museum display cases, others which, having not long come out of the kiln, are still hot. Ceramics however is a holistic art form which calls on all the senses: porcelain has a different ring to that of stoneware, a celadon glaze doesn't feel the same as a mirror black glaze. One of my most faithful fans in Savoy was a blind man who said he could single out my work from others in a group display. In my collection you will also find directions for coming and seeing my actual creations, either in the display room of our workshop in Corcelle, or in the gallery in Paris where my work is permanently on show. Then of course, in the introduction are details of my current and future exhibitions as well as details of events I'd like you to know about. Have a good visit. >Jean Girel. 

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