Jean-François Fouilhoux (°1947, France ) has been working with celadon glazes for more than 25 years. His hand-built works are glazed and fired multiple times, before reaching the perfection he is looking for. His celadon glazes range from light blue-green to a deep olive green in colour. Fouilhoux's works combine the traditional Chinese celadon glaze with a French free-form aesthetic.

Fouilhoux is known as “the master of celadon” and he describes his work with celadon in a very poetic way:
“What am I looking for? My philosophers' stone is translucid inside, satiny and polished on the outside. Seen under a low magnification, the surface from a celadon resembles the sea seen from a balloon, covered with a multitude of minuscule wavelets, packed closely together, like a myriad of crystals, creating the greasy, silky, waxy reflection, depending on the shape, the size and the number of micro-reliefs. Deep within the glaze the crystals provide the murky, enchanting translucidity. Experiment shows that the crystallisation on the surface is the most important. Breathe onto any transparent celadon; the condensation deposed as minuscule droplets creates a layer and a magical reflection… And then the dream evaporates. It is this mineral and unctuous aspect which I want to give to my sculptures, so that they live through and by the light.”

Fouilhoux studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués in Paris from 1962-68.