Born in Japan in 1959, Yoshimi Futamura learns ceramics in the tradition of her masters. She comes to France in 1986 and studies at L’Ecole Duperre. She decides then and there that she will be an artist, using clay as a medium.
Nature is at the heart of her inspiration. Her first sculptures are entitled “Racines” (roots) and “Bulbes” (bulbs). Today the artist has freed herself of nominative references and developed abstract, more open forms. It is the material itself which underlines nature: cracked structures that resemble bark, breathing clay that almost seems alive, wherre primeval forces seem tob e at work. Clay mixed with porcelain, which makes one think of snow-covered landscapes, probably a flashback to her native Japan.
In 2004, she received the first prize at the Ceramic Biennale in Andenne, Belgium.