Simon Manoha

We carry select pieces from Simon Manoha, in-store or inquire by email.

"After studying contemporary philosophy and music in Paris, I returned home and started studying photography. One thing led to another the material obsessed me more and more, I had to touch it with my hands. So I started collecting clay and studying ceramics. I continue philosophy, music, photography and ceramics together, always in the same perspective, the same obsession to work on the substance of things."

Based in the Ardeche, Simon Manoha is a well rounded player as we like to say, a photographer, sculptor, musician and of course a potter- a true artist....all the pieces are carved by hand (Tama-Zukuri, Kurinuki), no wheel. Simon works with clays that he collects in nature. Glazes come from collected minerals that are crushed by hand. Pieces are fired in a wood kiln as well as electric.