Visual artist Anna Kesäniemi flits between mediums. Collage, textile design, paint, and sculpture each offer new opportunities for Kesäniemi’s playful eye. Her roots in graphic design and illustration inject her work with stories and imagination, adding life and layers of detail in colours both bold and unexpected. Her recent focus on ceramics embraces this same style. Tiles and shapes serve as canvases where texture and … Continue reading Anna Kesäniemi
It’s our last post of the year so we’re leaving 2025 with a bag of curiosities for your viewing pleasure. Feast your eyes on flowers, matryoshka, and Daliesque scenes, and have a lovely winter holiday! 1) Ditorni Isola Designed by Inga Sempé for Mutina, plain colours, patterns, and scenes make up Ditorni (surroundings). Geometric motifs and solid shades form distinctive details and intriguing space, but … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXIV
I was hoping to gather a range of fun and festive tiles to match the bunch I collected for Halloween but it seems that Christmas time isn’t as tile-heavy as I thought. However, there are two companies keeping the holiday spirit alive – Petra Palumbo and Motawi Tileworks – so instead we’ll just enjoy their Christmassy offerings! 1) Christmas Tree and Festive Wreath Petra Palumbo … Continue reading 14 Festive Christmas Tiles
Today our tile theme is super niche. After searching through years of content and trawling countless company portfolios, we’ve finally collected enough tiles for a De Stijl compilation. 1) Coonley Playhouse Inspired by the architectural details in the Avery Coonley Playhouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, these unique art tiles by Motawi Tileworks feature a perfect snapshot of De Stijl style. 2) Kente This playful … Continue reading Five De Stijl Style Tiles
With a mission to ‘enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment’, a small group of Houstonians came together to form a living museum. That living museum, better known as the Houston Botanic Garden is made up of 132 acres of varied ecosystems. From wetlands to woodlands, and prairies to pine groves, these distinctive spaces create opportunities for education … Continue reading Rippling tiles frame Houston’s culinary garden
Making mini multimedia jewels, Munich-based artist Jiye Yun offers architecture for your clothes. Working with metal, leather, resin, porcelain, wood, and acrylic, Jiye Yun creates strikingly unusual brooches, necklaces, and earrings. Imitating swimming pools, tiled seating, walls, houses, and more, these tiny wearable artworks mimic tile and brick surfaces whilst playing with perspective and forming unexpected decor. Jiye Yun’s creations include large, chunky necklaces with … Continue reading Mini multimedia tile mimics in Munich
Participating in ‘Poetic Vandalism’, the Polish Paintress Joanna Koziej, artistically known as Malarka, is spreading tiled treasures across the world. Creating one off pieces, large scale multi-tile installations, and sneaky additions to public spaces, Malarka and her artworks join our list of favourite finds. With a style that radiates an ethereal aura, staggered brush strokes, interrupted lines, and energetic waves transfer beauty from brush to … Continue reading Poetic Vandalism from the Polish Paintress
Myths and folklore inform the magical tiles of multidisciplinary artist Edith Morris. Made in Cornwall exclusively for The Shop Floor Project, each of the 22 designs feature creatures, scenes, and woodland plants that tell stories passed down through generations. In one, a pair of Knockers (cave dwelling, 2ft tall gnome-like creatures from Cornish folklore) stand, dressed in minors clothing. In another poses Krampus, a half-goat, … Continue reading Fine Folklore Forms
With funky patterns and muted carnival tones, the ceramics of London-based illustrator and artist Laura Bird offer whimsy, function, and a 90s flair. A colourful tesserae-effect design features across her collection, on vases, plates, and candlesticks, serving as a playful backdrop and contrasting against checkers, stripes, and starbursts for a curated maximal style. 3D relief noses and boobs serve as a fun signature along with … Continue reading Laura Bird
Our last week of companies and creatives begins with The Happy Collectiv (THC), a place designed by founder Satya Shekar to be a joyful, intentional, grounded studio where objects that ooze happiness can be collected and created. Cast forms, paper mache, and ceramics make up THC’s artistic offerings, made slowly and lovingly for homely details filled with soul. Varying in style and subject, her hand-painted … Continue reading The Happy Collectiv
Part canvas, part dolls house, the incredible creations of Genesis Belanger take tableaux of every day life and gently twist them into strange compositions formed from a variety of materials. Unique mosaics that burst from their seams, comforting scenes of daily life crafted from porcelain, and curious sculptures with a playdoh soul fill Belanger’s portfolio, with each piece more captivating than the next. Feast your … Continue reading Genesis Belanger
Earlier this year we featured the striking tiled exterior of Café Tengo in St Austell, Cornwall. Created by Matter of Stuff, Teamwork Italy, and Studio HOTmess this 3D facade was made to honour the local area, utilising traditional techniques whilst adding greenery and contemporary intrigue to the town. One half of the HOTmess duo is our creative of choice today. Charlotte Moore, raised in Cornwall’s Tamar Valley, builds … Continue reading Charlotte Moore
Working with clay for over 20 years, Michigan-based Gretchen Kramp creates three dimensional handmade tiles decorated with cosy creatures and home comforts. Each gently irregular piece measures between the tiny 2 x 2″ and more stately 8 x 8″, with diverse subjects, themes, and styles for a variety of tastes. Toast, cereal, and fried eggs serve up scenes for breakfast lovers whilst Mothman, Mermaids, and … Continue reading Gretchen Kramp
Swapping sketchbooks for clay, Cheltenham native Alice Johnson took her studies in illustration and turned them into a tactile practice, forming a series of charming hand-crafted ceramics. Statues, vases, plates, and candlesticks are her usual offerings, but a few collaborations have born a wonderful array of tiles. Working with her Pottery Pets alter ego – the place you go to have your furry friends immortalised … Continue reading Studio Alice Johnson
Beginning our third week of companies and creatives we’ve got Anne Wenkel, a German artist and illustrator who adds colourful charm to ceramics. Alongside the plates, candle holders, and baubles in her collection sit the truest treasure of all – tiles. Delightfully decorated with abstract shapes, playful patterns, and the occasional cafetiere, Wenkel’s tiles are made to inject whimsy. With collections both mini (50 by … Continue reading Wenkels Welt
Finishing our second week of tile-world companies and creatives we have Guumba Pottery – a Seoul-based ceramic studio that creates captivating handcrafted homeware. Exploring the interplay of organic material and an artist’s touch, each piece is decorated in Guumba Pottery’s reinterpretation of traditional Korean folk paintings, aesthetics, and patterns. Every bowl, vase, cup, and tile form a canvas, depicting charming creatures and striking motifs in … Continue reading Guumba Pottery
Mini charms, eggy wall decor, and colourful goblets are just some of the joyful creations available from Crete-based artist Elina Mavromatti. Mixing her love of painting with a passion for ceramics, Mavromatti’s body of work spans vibrant scenes, adorable buttons, and sculptural pottery pieces, with a few tiling delights thrown in. These tile sets feature curated sequences – showcasing bows of fruit in lively shades, … Continue reading Elina Mavrommati
It’s the most wacky, wonderful, whimsical time of the year so feast your eyes on this spooky selection of Halloween-themed tiles. 1) Sin Horned faces, skulls, skeletons, and bleeding hearts form the tattoo-style motifs of the Lingerfelt Delft Sin collection from Haustile. Made as the evil twin to Lingerfelt’s Holy designs, Sin tells a more twisted story through its iconography. 2) UFO Designed by Léa … Continue reading Twelve tiles with Halloween style
Our fabulous list of tile in art beauties grows today, with five more wonderful artists and their artworks fit for Tile Addicts. Ana Doolin Born in the vibrant city of Lisbon, Portuguese artist Ana Doolin drenches her work with the soul of the colourful capital. Each oil painting translates the characterful streets into a playfully abstract reality where tiled building facades take centre stage, steeped … Continue reading Tile in Art II
Design lovers and Tile Addicts, prepare yourself for a fresh tile-adjacent treasure to add to your list of loves. Elevating the home one plug at a time, these innovative creations from Rosetta Ceramica are mini artworks for the most unexpected to places. With bold colour and playful textures, these unique fixtures update drab, unloved, uninspiring plastic plug sockets with something much more aspirational. Matching an … Continue reading Powering Perfection with Pretty Plug Plates
