Camille Morin

Website: www.belleepoquepottery.com

Social links: https://linktr.ee/bepottery

Email: bepottery@icloud.com

Artist Info

Raised in East Tennessee, ceramic artist Camille Morin of “Belle Epoque Studio” began her entrepreneurial journey in her youth selling friendship and bead bracelets, then in high school found new inspiration on the potter’s wheel. Camille went on to earn her BFA in Ceramics in 1998 from the University of Tennessee. Her exploration in clay continued with work-study programs at the Penland and Arrowmont Schools of Craft, then residencies at Starworks Center for Creative Enterprise and Mars Hill University. She has been a full time potter since 2019 and a Southern Highland Craft Guild member since 2024, which are life-long dreams realized.

Camille incorporates nostalgic images into her work through the use of a lithographic printing method onto porcelain. Paper photocopies of images are coated with a binder and inked several times, then burnished to transfer onto the clay surface. Wheel-thrown, hand-built, and slipcast forms are finished with original glazes carefully mixed and weighed to preserve the images and patterns underneath. She enhances her surfaces further with multiple firings, adding vintage decal imagery and metallic lusters.

“With my decorated porcelain I wish to create modern heirlooms- to connect the past with contemporary society. Printing on porcelain allows me to showcase traditions of historical illustration or images from photos I alter graphically by incorporating them into my work. Ceramics can last millennia. Preserving history and elevating everyday rituals around food and drink gives the user a connection to the earth through a unique, more soulful object.”