Eva Claessens for De Ferranti
Light, life and feeling. Ceramic surfaces with the trace of the artist’s hand.
Few contemporary artists understand the emotional charge of a moment with the instinct and sensitivity of Eva Claessens.
Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, Eva has lived across several European countries, Israel, India, Jamaica, Chicago and Uruguay. Her work has travelled far beyond borders through more than three decades of exhibitions and commissions, carrying with it a language of light, feeling, human presence and everyday beauty.
In collaboration with De Ferranti, her artistic world is reimagined as a range of ceramic tiles. These are not simply paintings placed onto tile. They are surfaces conceived with emotion, gesture and atmosphere at their core.
Each piece reflects the De Ferranti belief that materials should carry authorship, depth and presence - beauty made not for the moment, but for rooms that gather character over time.
The Origin of the Collaboration
The collaboration began with a shared instinct for art, material and atmosphere.
When Eva Claessens and Alvaro de Ferranti began exploring how her work could be translated into ceramic surface, they recognised a common language: feeling before explanation, beauty held in imperfection, and surfaces that allow the eye to complete the story.
Eva has said that her work is “more to feel than to define,” and that she likes to leave a piece with the appearance of being unfinished, “like life itself,” allowing the viewer to conclude the work with their own eyes.
That sensibility sits naturally within ceramic. Clay, glaze and hand-finished surface give her artistic language a new permanence, allowing the energy of the painted mark to become part of architecture itself.
The Editions
The range speaks through light, colour, gesture and the human figure.
Eva’s work is most often described as a contemporary artistic practice devoted to light, life, feelings and the beauty of a moment, with a particular exploration of the human figure. Her paintings capture emotions, sensations and instants of everyday life.
Translated into tile, that world becomes more than decoration. It becomes surface with feeling - ceramic pieces that can sit quietly as accents, gather rhythm across a wall, or create a more immersive painterly installation.
The collection offers designers a way to bring art into architecture without separating the two. It is surface as canvas, tile as composition, and ceramic as a medium for atmosphere.
Together, the pieces form a refined toolkit for expressive interiors - surfaces defined by character, craft and artistic presence.
Exclusively at De Ferranti
De Ferranti has always been drawn to surfaces with authorship: materials that are not merely specified, but chosen for their story, their making and their ability to transform a room.
The Eva Claessens collaboration sits naturally within that world. It brings together contemporary art, ceramic craft and architectural intent, creating tiles that feel expressive, personal and quietly powerful.
These are surfaces for designers who want more than pattern - they want feeling, individuality and the trace of the hand. Considered, atmospheric and unmistakably alive.
Artist Profile: Eva Claessens
“Since I was little I fell in love with drawing, it was all I wanted to do.” - Eva Claessens
Eva Claessens knew from childhood that she wanted to become an artist, later winning a full scholarship to the Perugia School of Fine Arts at the age of eighteen.
Her practice is rooted in feeling, observation and the human figure. She works mainly with acrylic paint on various structures, three-dimensional sculpture, handmade prints and ceramics, always with what she describes as “a deep investigation around each piece.”
With De Ferranti, that sensibility moves from artwork to architectural surface. Through ceramic, glaze and texture, Eva’s visual world gains a new permanence - designed for interiors where art is not simply hung on the wall, but built into it.
Closing Thoughts
The Eva Claessens collection is a reminder that ceramic does not have to be silent, repetitive or purely functional. In the right hands, tile can carry gesture, emotion and authorship. It can hold the feeling of a painted mark while gaining the permanence of architectural surface.
For De Ferranti, this collaboration reflects our continued interest in materials that sit somewhere between art, craft and interior architecture. These are hand painted tiles for spaces that want atmosphere, individuality and a visible trace of the maker.
Expressive, tactile and quietly poetic, the Eva Claessens collection brings the intimacy of the artist’s studio into the language of interiors.
DE FERRANTI
South Park Studios - Suite 10
88 Peterborough Road, London SW6 3HH
United Kingdom