New Pique-Fleurs by Cécile Daladier
French ceramicist Cécile Daladier is known for her pique-fleurs and tulipiers – vessels for flowers and plants that inspire arrangement, contemplation and harmony between art and nature.
“While creating pique-fleurs vases, I am working with flowers & water directly in a way. Using a little water & a few small wildflowers can be considered quite futile & weak. But when you insert the stalk of a flower & place water in the pique-fleurs, you discover a strength. You discover that you are in the continuation of a creative process.”
– Cécile Daladier
Cécile Daladier’s artistic work focuses on nature, plants and water. Born in 1955 in Paris, France, she now lives and works in rural Drôme, France. Over the past thirty years, Cécile has undertaken to create ceramic vases. Previously, she used various mediums such as painting, sculpture, design of objects, photography, and gardening plants encapsulating a central purpose: the art form as a revelatory instrument. By paying close attention to the expression of what grows, lives, dies or passes through us and reinvigorating the neglected aspects of nature and daily life, Cécile’s purpose is to create works that enable us to rediscover certain facets of things, beings, landscapes that surround us.
“YOU BRING YOUR OWN PERSONAL INTERPRETATION. JUST LIKE IN MUSIC, THE PIQUE-FLEURS IS A KIND OF INSTRUMENT, & YOU ARE PLAYING IT IN YOUR OWN WAY”