Béatrice Bruneteau draws her inspiration primarily from the immensity of landscapes and the diversity of the mineral world. Working with stoneware, porcelain, and other raw materials from the earth, she creates sculptures that capture powerful images of nature, and which translate the emotion felt in front of the delicacy of moss, the vigour of scree, the transparency of a thin ice layer, or the darkness of a lava field. 

This modelling gives rise to sober, sleek forms, upon which various mineral compounds are gradually superimposed. Then, comes the transformation via fire: tensions, cracking, crevices, drips, deformations, and vitrification. The colour palette and the textures are revealed: rough matte browns, transparent and milky whites, shiny and velvety greys. These unanticipated metamorphoses continuously lead towards new forms of experimentation. 

Full of subtleties and hazards, Béatrice Bruneteau’s sculptures bear the marks of the journey carried out by the materials, with an aesthetics of the rock and its erosion. With her Blocs (Blocks) — and their imperfect geometric shapes —, one guesses the process of transformation of materials evoking freshly fallen snow, a rippling and shimmering river or a crack in a rock. With the Penseurs (Thinkers), the surface processing subsides, giving way to the intensity of the expression. In their timeless uncanniness, these petrified beings emerging from a lost civilisation, invite us to explore our inner selves. 

Reinterpreting in her artworks what has been going on for thousands of years in the natural environment, Béatrice Bruneteau pays tribute to the extraordinary variety of landscapes, and draws our attention to its great vulnerability.

Trained as an architect, Béatrice Bruneteau learned the techniques of ceramics in Sèvres about fifteen years ago. Her work was awarded the SEMA 92 prize for contemporary creation in 2009, and the "La Relève" prize from Ateliers d'Art de France.