Marc Lancet is co-author, with Japanese master potter Masakazu Kusakabe, of "Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics". In Miharu, Japan in 1992 he began his collaboration with ceramic artist Kusakabe-sensei which has included exhibitions, workshops, lectures, kiln building and the writing of their book. The collaboration continues to this day. Marc states, "The focus of my work has been increasingly centered on studio process. I can not apply wonder and mystery to a work like a coat of paint. Rather if I work with wonder and mystery in the studio - with an inspired attention - then often the works I create are imbued with these qualities. I seek paradoxically to surprise myself when I work. I avoid over planning in favor of discovery. I trust instinct, celebrate whim and discourage certainty. I bring to the studio my own fascination with the "complex, dynamic cultural forces" and a trust that these interests will emerge in the work without my forcing them. I go to the studio to discover rather than to work out some pre-ordained plan. I endeavor to create art in which conceptual integrity and visual attributes are intertwined, inseparable. Lancet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and a Master of Arts degree in Education from UCSB. In addition he has studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France and apprenticed in fine art casting at a foundry also in Paris. His sculpture and ceramics are exhibited internationally. Lancet is in his twenty fifth year as professor of three-dimensional art at Solano Community College. He has been a visiting professor of sculpture at Portland State University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. Lancet lives in Davis, California with his wife Annette and his daughter Evan.