From her studio in Brittany, Barbara Daeffler creates unique works that explore the ancestral links between humans and animals. Inspired since childhood by the raw beauty of the wild world, she uses sculpture to question a bygone era when humans lived in harmony with animals.
Her career closely combines art and archaeology: she studied art history, ethnology and archaeology, enriched by years of practice in ceramics and teaching the arts of fire. It is in clay, a primitive and symbolic material, that she draws the essence of her artistic language.
Her animal sculptures, made of stoneware and porcelain, bear the traces of an imaginary past. Fragmented, marked by erosion or colourful tattoos, they evoke a poetic and vibrant paleontology. Through fire, textures, oxides and enamels, the artist gives her creatures a mysterious and timeless presence.
Her ‘Beasts’, sometimes monumental, hybridise worlds, elevating the animal to totem status and the material to memory. The earth becomes skin, stretched to the point of cracking, in a play of contrasts between roughness and finesse, archaism and grace.
A member of Ateliers d'Art de France since 2023, Barbara Daeffler has exhibited regularly in galleries, salons and exhibitions since setting up her studio in 2018.
A self-taught artist from a nursing background, Sylvie works the land with care and delicacy. His main inspiration lies in the animal world, in particular the marine world, which dominates his creations.
Its distinctive style is based on the delicate technique of raku, a form of Japanese ceramic art involving rapid firing at high temperatures. Each work highlights the importance of marine beings in our ecosystem. Sylvie strives to give each sculpture a unique personality while emphasizing the beauty of each animal.
Acquérir une œuvre, c’est inscrire dans son patrimoine une expérience esthétique et émotionnelle unique.
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