After first covering the eerily empty and monochrome tiled interior paintings of Adriana Varejão a few years ago, I’ve become somewhat obsessed with the representation of tile in art. Sprinkling in a few findings amongst our regular content, namely the bold and beautiful creations of Rachael Tarravechia and the intensely detailed bed-centric style of Frances Featherstone, has only served to increase this obsession. So today … Continue reading Finding tile in art
Multidisciplinary artist Marina Anaya creates vividly across multiple mediums – from jewellery and engravings to painting and embroidery. Vibrant colour and engaging shapes form striking visuals full of love and joy. Her talents also spread to the wonderful world of ceramics where sculptures, pottery, and murals receive whimsical decoration and showcase a spirited imagination. The wiggly bending bodies, rough marks, and simple stripes seen throughout … Continue reading Marina Anaya
Today’s tile theme may be unexpected, but after being asked on Instagram to find a bunch of interiors featuring nudes on tile I fell down a fun little rabbit hole. Surprisingly, some boob tiles have already featured across various articles but I had to find a few more to flesh out the list. So please enjoy this breast-taking selection! 1) Boobs à l’unité From Tue … Continue reading Five titillating boob tiles
Vibrant, playful, and full of life, the artwork of Hal Haines captures the spirit of summer, translating fun, adventure, and lazy hazy days with simple shapes and scenes. Restricting his palette to include only primary and secondary colours, Haines’ work is lively but restrained. Familiar objects and clean patterns are represented in bold hues inspiring carefree feelings of nostalgia and joyful memories of childhood holidays. … Continue reading Scenes of Summer
Everyday life in its most basic unadulterated, untidied, and unclothed form creates the captivating imagery of artist Max Guther. Scrubbing a toilet in your pants, baking a cake in your pants, flexing in your pants, or working from home (surprisingly not in your pants), are all scenes masterfully rendered, inviting a glimpse into the life of yourself and others. These mundane scenes translate joy and … Continue reading Rendered life
Since her birth in 1918, Frances Elizabeth Kent, otherwise known as Corita Kent or Sister Mary Corita Kent, lived many lives. A former nun, teacher, activist, and artist, her legacy is one deeply rooted in love, tolerance, and her faith. Her art was her activism. Heavily text-based, vibrantly coloured screen prints incorporated popular branding, slogans, and signage, as well as clippings from newspapers, lyrics, poetry, … Continue reading The Pop Art Nun
Working from her studio in East Neuk of Fife in Scotland, Eleanor Meredith crafts wonderful watercolours, whimsical ceramic sculptures, artistic tableware, and bespoke tiles. Ambiguous florals, sketched portraits, and playful colour bursts feature as decors throughout her creations. A family of patterned animals proudly wear these designs, amongst which you’ll be delighted to find wobbly lions, chunky penguins, leggy zebras, and adorably malformed leopards alongside … Continue reading Eleanor Meredith
Fabricating Frankenstein furniture from materials of all kinds, Greek artist Kostas Lambridis reinvents the table. Boldly blending wood, ceramic, metal, concrete, glass, and beyond, Lambridis’ collection of creations is wholly unique. Every leg is different, every shape its own, as wicker bleeds to cement, golden hands grasp brushed chrome, and carved wood meets vintage mosaic. Each of these functional art pieces has detail to spare … Continue reading Frankenstein Furniture
It is our absolute delight to add yet another unforgetable artist to our internal database of creatives creating with a flair for tile. Like the bold and beautiful interiors of Rachael Tarravechia, or the moody monochromes of Adriana Varejão, English artist Frances Featherstone brings the wonder of tile to canvas. In an incredible series featuring one of life’s most lovely and mundane activities – reading in … Continue reading Intimate scenes and tiled dreams
The crafty creatives at Karak cause a stir on a courtyard ceiling in a collaboration with artist Michael Fliri and architecture firm Bergmeisterwolf. Flowing across a bathhouse in the old town of Brixen, double-ended ceramic hands reach towards one another in a symbol of connection and exchange. In a deep inky blue, these textured, 3D hands rise up from uniquely shaped tiles with their bubble-like skin … Continue reading Karak Constellation
Vibrant with colour, rich with retro charm, and oozing artisanal finesse, these are the enchanting creations of Trix Newham. Embracing the captivating visuals formed by glaze effects, Newham’s artistic designs combine inky, watercolour, crackled, and speckled looks with raw natural clay to produce dynamic, characterful works. Originally reigniting her love for pottery in 2021, Newham started out making small square dishes decorated with geometric patterns … Continue reading Lux Loveliness
It’s always a time to celebrate when we come across something weird and wonderful in the tile world. And today, the functional art we’re featuring is enticingly weird, outstandingly wonderful, and, of course, fully tiled. From an exhibition last year titled ‘Please Sit for the Alternate Ending’ held at Objective Gallery designers Sam Klemick and Jeff Martin made their magic from outdated trends, materials, and … Continue reading The only way to tile a table
Wisely choosing ceramic as a canvas, Lincolnshire-based Kate Boulton celebrates the local countryside with striking swoops and puddles of glaze. Delightfully abstracted, the lush rolling hills, the muddy Humber, and the idyllic coastline take shape under striking, colourful effects. With mountain peaks, a rippling sea, angular bridge, and glistening sunlight scratched into the surface, multiple dimensions recreate the serenity, intrigue, and wonder of areas both … Continue reading Rolling hills and shining seas
Beautiful, busy, and bursting with birds, Linda Hoskin‘s art tiles are for nature lovers. Originally from Northamptonshire, Hoskin has spent the last 20 years in the North East of Scotland, absorbing the coast and countryside and recreating the sights with colour and quirks. Not your average country tiles, Hoskin’s watercolour designs vibrantly separate themselves from their quaint counterparts with rich pigments and dynamic compositions. Peruse … Continue reading A bouquet of birds
On rare and wonderful days I come across tiles so beautiful I could cry. And the day I discovered Myrsini Alexandridi I very nearly shed a tear. Greek-born and Stockholm-based interior architect Myrsini Alexandridi creates artworks informed by her architectural practice, Greek tradition, and topographical forms, neatly and uniquely on the world’s greatest canvas – tile. Mini murals as small as two tiles and up … Continue reading Myrsini Alexandridi
Tile muraler and ceramicist extraordinaire Michael Chandler is gracing the Tile Addict spotlight today. With Chandler House, this UK-born South Africa-based artist lets his creativity run free, unrestricted by the shackles of tradition. Although Chandler House houses many home goods, including beaded vases, carved wooden sculptures, and printed fabrics, it’s the tile work we’re most interested in. Bars, cafés, and kitchens have all had the … Continue reading Delightfully Delft-esque
If you’re into unique, striking, and boundary-pushing art, today’s tile company feature is exactly what you need. Based in Girona, Spain, Bussoga blends the modular magic of mathematics with a wildly creative attitude, giving life to an enormous catalogue of incredible ceramics unlike any you have seen before. Founded in 2010 by Josep Motas, who was later joined by Irina Grosu, Bussoga was created to … Continue reading Bussoga: Beyond Brilliant
Kiasmo, established in 2011 by Vincenzo D’Alba in Apulia, is a unique homeware brand offering statement decor items and functional art. Amongst their many marvellous plates, pillows, and pottery sit some treats for Tile Addicts. Framed and fabulous, the Ginevra series by illustrator, designer and Kiasmo co-founder Vincenzo D’Alba feature whimsical minimalist portraits in black and white applied to plain ceramic tiles. D’Alba’s faces span … Continue reading Into the Kiasmo Cosmos
Inspired and informed by Brazilian tiling tradition, self taught artist Alexandre Mancini specialises in creating large scale murals decorated with both traditional motifs and abstracted shapes. Covering the entire sides of buildings, walls, smaller scale details, mobile panels, and private interiors, Mancini’s artworks offer vibrancy, enlivening the spaces where they sit, producing relief from plain architecture, and providing an enticing focus for the eyes. The … Continue reading Meet Mancini
Can you believe it’s been almost five years since we last spoke about global gallivanter and mastermind mosaicist Invader? Last time we checked he had hit over 75 cities world-wide and installed 3,724 sneaky mosaics. The most memorable of which (for me) include The Dude from Invading LA 2018, the four ghosts from Invading Hong Kong 2018, and the camouflaged invader from Invading Versailles 2019 … Continue reading Reinvaded
