L'Atelier Larose MTL
GOLDEN VEINS (2024) Red stoneware, glaze, underglaze, 3 firings. Cold work. FLAT ROCK PARADE (2024) Red stoneware, flashing slips, natural ash glaze from wood firing. Comes with 12 1-inch accessory “stones” to arrange freely. REFUGE (red anorak) (2022) Red stoneware, underglaze, glaze, 3 firings. Cold work. First piece in the Erratics series. CONCENTRICS (2024) Red stoneware, glaze, 2 firings. Private collection. SPLIT LEVEL (2024) High fire buff stoneware, upcycled glass, flashing slip, natural ash glaze from wood firing. Cold work. MOSSY (2024) Red stoneware, glaze, underglaze, 3 firings. Cold work. Comes with two matching accessory boulders, to arrange freely.

Current projects / projets en cours

News

Mosaic of the four pages of the article on Janice Cormier.

Above: January 2026 Ceramics Monthly cover and four-page feature article.

December 2025 - My latest Ceramics Monthly article is out in the January 2026 edition: "Making Sense of the World with Janice Cormier." A former Maritimer now living in Montreal, Janice Cormier makes sculptural vessels destined to make space for emotions like grief and compassion, as well as wall pieces that allude to tides and fossils, and the things we as humans also leave behind. Read.

October 2025 - The TerraTerre website is live! TerraTerre is a new juried biennial exhibition of ceramic sculpture aimed at Canadian ceramicists and artists that's being organised by colleagues and I. The call for submissions (in English / en français) is out, and our inaugural theme is Fragments. Submissions will run January 6 to February 16, 2026. The show will be from April 22 to April 29, 2026, in the EK Voland Gallery in Montreal, QC. 

Here is a nice read about the Goregama wood firing collective. ("Firing ceramics by hand in the Laurentians with the pottery collective Goregama", The Main, 17 Oct 2025, by J.P. Karwacki).

Also, I've put together a small but snazzy portfolio of some Metallics on CoEx. 

October-November 2025 - I'm participating in an group show of wood fired ceramics from the Goregama Collective at Poterie et Galerie Foster. The vernissage took place 18 October 2025, and the show will last a month. Visitors will be able to admire a variety of works from a dozen members. There's a slideshow of our group's wood firing process being shown at the gallery. The artists' talk will take place on 22 November 2025.

Two photos: on the left, a woman (me) wearing a leather apron holds the kiln door open for another woman (Robin Hutchinson) who is wearing a face shield and a suede welder's jacket as she throws wood into the Goregama. On the right, a view of the Goregama kiln with flames and smokes coming out its chimney.

Above: The Goregama Collective does two wood firings each year, one at the start of summer and the other at the end.

July 2025 - I showed the Metallics collection at 1001 Pots again this year (July 4-August 17, 2025), inside the Gaétan-Beaudin Gallery on the exhibition site, in Val-David, Québec. Below is a photo of the display on installation day.  

Wall and shelf displaying 23 works from the Metallics collection, Val-David, 2025.

Above: Display of Metallics in the Gaétan-Beaudin gallery, 36th edition of the 1001 Pots summer exhibit in Val-David, QC, summer 2025. 

February 2025 – The Erratics collection was featured in a month-long solo show (1-31 March 2025) curated by Luke Havekes at Poterie et Galerie Foster. The vernissage took place on March 1, 2025, from 6 PM to 8 PM, and featured a 3-hour long sound installation by Flock of Nazguls. I also gave an artist talk at the gallery on March 29, at 1 PM.

Poster Les erratiques 1-31 mars 2025. Lysanne Larose. Vernissage 1 mars, 16h-20h, Poterie Foster, Lachine QC

Above: Invitation cards for the Erratics show that took place March 1-31, 2025, at Gallery Foster.

The Metallics

The Metallics is a growing collection of wall-mounted and freestanding artefacts that appear to have been spontaneously birthed from postindustrial decay.

Somewhere in a city, among quietly decomposing factories and alleyways littered with broken glass and graffiti, something has woken up and come alive. What are these artefacts being left in the rubble? What is their function? Are they messages, beacons, prayers, warnings, pranks? Who might decipher them?  

Inspired by a found piece of rusted cast iron machinery, The Metallics are a set of high-contrast sculptures that add a dash of magical realism to the tenets of postindustrial art. The viewer is invited to come up with their own interpretation. 

The Metallics were exhibited in the Gaetan-Beaudin gallery during the 2024 and 2025 editions of the 1001 Pots expo. They were previously shown in a curated group show in July 2023 curated by Beatrice Shilton, and at a self-organised show with a fellow artist in April 2023.

Collection of ceramic artworks on plinths and on the wall.

Above: Display of Metallics in the Gaétan-Beaudin gallery, 35th edition of the 1001 Pots summer exhibit in Val-David, QC, summer 2024. 

The Erratics

In my Erratics project, I play with the evocative forms and surfaces of glacial erratics (boulders and rocks ferried by glaciers and scattered across the landscape at the end of the last ice age). The intention is not to perfectly replicate a mossy granite boulder, but rather to offer up a multi-layered interpretation of these wandering rocks and the contexts in which they are found.

The goal is to eventually present The Erratics as an installation that positions them in overlapping contexts: geological and geographical (the Canadian shield, ice ages); ecological (soil creation; role of cryptograms as ecosystem health indicators; plant identification); cultural (Western literature; Indigenous legend); athletic (the start of rock climbing in Canada); and allegorical (forced migrations of people and animals).

I received a Canadian Council for the Arts grant for a residency abroad for this project in 2022, and was mentored for all of 2024 by artist and gallerist Sam Harvey (Harvey Preston Gallery, Aspen, Colorado) to further develop this body of work. 

Two photos of smaller Erratic sculptures in softer tones. These sets are meant to talk about how the boulders can be a metaphor for force human displacement.

Above: Smaller Erratic sculptures in pastel tones. Their networks of lines and dots, evoking maps, are meant to talk about how glacial erratics can also be a metaphor for forced human displacement and a search for a safe place to call home.

The ARCTICS

The Arctics series was begun during a week-long residency for which I was selected by 1001 Pots in Val-David, QC. These works aim celebrate the beauty and endless forms of the planet’s precious glaciers, floes and icebergs; and to bring awareness to Inuits’ and Laps’ right to be cold, and to the threatened northern fauna, flora, and ways of life. The series was conceived during a six-week residency in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2022, with South African ceramic artist John Bauer.

Solo exit show at the Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.

Above and below: early Arctic maquettes, solo exit show, Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town, South Africa (May 2022) (more photos and a video on Instagram.)

Collection of ceramic artworks on plinths and on the wall.


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