When Alex Matisse founded East Fork Pottery, in Asheville, N.C., he didn't want to use the name of his great-grandfather, artist Henri Matisse. But after business took off, Alex decided it was time – ...

“It’s always been clay,” Alex Matisse told me of his choice medium. The material suits him: he’s a trained potter and a co-founder of East Fork, a ceramics company rooted in traditio ...

That’s why Alex Matisse forged his own path. In 2009, after a ceramics apprenticeship, Matisse moved to a former tobacco farm in North Carolina and set up his own pottery studio, East Fork. ‘For a ...

Like many of the Matisse children, Alex had artistic inclinations. Throughout his school years, he thrived in art classes, and in fourth grade he fell in love with pottery in an after-school program.

A groundbreaking new show in Paris delves into the deep bond between Matisse and his daughter Marguerite, and the portraits ...

Hand-crafted pottery from the grandson of Henri Matisse East Fork ceramics specializes in creating simple everyday objects with earthy beauty. The quiet radicalism of Henri Matisse’s great ...

Matisse made several exceptional bronze sculptures ... A weirdly beautiful 1913 still life, ‘Flowers and Ceramic Plate,’ is an almost entirely blue canvas with a green disk (the ceramic ...