Gérard Joncqueur

I was about to retire when I became taken with egg sculpture. My cousin was the person who showed me how to look for eggs and taught me the technique - a folly of a technique - sculpting something between a millimetre and 2 millimetres thick.
I was self taught and had the gift of an artist, but the beginnings were difficult. The long period of experimentation on goose eggs led me to develop a technique which was both original and unsetting. The true-to-life look of the sculptured reliefs on eggs from geese, swans, ostriches and rheas is breath taking.
Now I am at ease in the technique, I am becoming more and more demanding as for as the eggs themselves are concerned. I look for the perfect curve and a united texture, and also make individualised, hand-made egg supports.
I have recently started giving exhibitions and have received a very favourable response from the public especially where finesse is concerned. Egg sculpture is as a matter of fact the simplicity of understanding the balance between the purity of this natural material and the hand of the artist that beautifies it in order to produce an original creation.

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