Jean-Denis Bisson Biscornet is born in Val-Morin, where he spends the first two years of his life, only to return to the Laurentians forty years later, to sculpt the stone which witnessed his birh.
A potter and a ceramist, Biscornet begins his apprenticeship of stonework during a research trip on ceramics in France : he assists sculptor Pierre Székely in Brittany’s granite quarries… Since then, the artist expresses himself through two media : metal and stone. He rediscovers and accentuates shapes already present in the stone, all the while establishing a bond with nature and Earth, which allows him to re-connect with his ancestors (his grand-mother being Iroquois), for whom stones were guardians of memory.
As for the metal Biscornet forges, cuts, colours, it is the wellspring from which emerges his fauna, taking shape as furniture, objects of daily use, or as purely decorative works.
