Biography
"Gaetan Beaudin is one of the founders of the pottery craft revival in Quebec. A master craftsman, he came from the studio pottery movement to launch a manufacturing facility to mass-produce ceramic dinnerware. Beaudin graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal and moved to Rimouski to teach war veterans at the local technical school. There he founded Decor Pottery, which operated between 1945 and 1953. He also taught at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina for three years. When the school in Rimouski closed, Beaudin opened a summer school in North Hatley, Quebec, in 1953, which he ran until the sixties. After a year’s stay in Japan, he teamed up with Pierre Legault and Bertrand Vanasse in 1965 and created Sial, which fabricated and distributed glazes and clay materials. Sial II opened in the seventies to produce tableware designed by Beaudin."