1963/64 Claude Champy was taught in drawing at the Atelier Met de Penninghen et Jacques d’Andon, a private art school in Paris.
1965 he stayed at La Borne where he met the leading ceramists at this time and in 1967 he built his first wood-fired kiln on his parents’ estate in Plaisir.
For two years, in 1971/72 he worked at a faïence factory in Clichy and finally set up his own workshop in Plaisir in 1973, where built a second wood-fired kiln, which was renewed in 1985.
Claude Champy's work consists of stoneware and porcelain vessels and objects fired in wood-fired kilns; at first exactly thrown vases and bowls with glazes applied in layers, often with a light coat on a darker ground.
[2] At that time he formed links with Japanese ceramists and also created Raku ware.