Roots and wings
Cromwell’s Yannick Fourbet, aka The French Potter, has spent his life moving: born in Cameroon, schooled in France, off to study in America at 19 with The Eagles’ Hotel California ringing in his ears, then back to France to complete his compulsory military service as a nurse (choosing nursing over a role in a tank after hearing the tank crew’s wartime life expectancy, and as he puts it “saving soldiers was more interesting to me than killing them”).Then came a period buying and selling antiques around the French countryside, learning how to restore old Anduze pots, before purchasing a pottery…
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