This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Hey, hey, and welcome to episode number 798 of the Potter's cast.

Today we've got a phenomenal artist.

We are going across the ocean in terms of my perspective here in the United States.

In fact, we're going across the continent and then across the ocean.

We're going to France to talk with our guest today, Simon

Manoa. And his work is so fascinating. I mean, it looks like it's been hewn out of rocks, but

hewn is the wrong word. Let's just say it looks like it's been discovered in a pile of rocks.

It's got this look that is so organic and so crazy cool, so interesting.

I'm just in love with what he's doing.

He's a French artist that approaches ceramics from trying to make it look like it's in its natural setting like from from where it

comes from from the area he's from so i just think it's amazing so i'm wanting to make sure that you

understand that english is simon's second language oh actually i don't know if it's a second third

fourth fifth or tenth i don't know if it's a second, third, fourth, fifth, or tenth, I don't know, but French is his first language. That I do know. And so there's,

there, there are times where you may have a little bit of hard time to be able to understand all

the words that he's saying, but, um, with, with just an attentive ear, I think that we can bypass that pretty quickly.

He's just a beautiful guy.

I love his approach to how he thinks about himself as an artist and also how he thinks about his

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