After leaving the factory where she worked to turn utility ceramics in series, Gisèle Buthod-Garçon started out as a professional in 1982. She moved to Manduel, near Nîmes, where she built her own wood-fired oven. She very quickly tames the technique of American Raku, which she will never leave.

In 1982, she began to create Eggs , vases and bowls with the American Raku technique. Going against the trend of the aesthetics of her time, she offers brilliant and colorful enamels.

The forms with functional connotations realized from its beginnings are only a pretext for a plastic research, with vitrified glazes of crackled enamel under the effect of thermal shock, imprinted by the plants burned at the time of smoking, natural scars .