Capalbio, Italy

“Slow down. Breathe. Create beauty within the space for your own silence.”

Chiara Della Santina is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist, working primarily in ceramics and abstract painting. She spent her formative years studying and working in Florence, Dublin and London until 2015, when she decided to move back to her hometown in Tuscany, where she works from her home-studio in the countryside.

The foundation of her creative practice is an exploration of silence, intuition, movement and breath. In a constant strive for harmony and creative honesty, Chiara favours traditional techniques that allow, on one hand, immediacy and intuition and, on the other hand, a high level of control. Given the mindful and slow approach to her craft, her creations evolve and change organically, sometimes resulting in a completely different outcome from the original design.

Her production in ceramics consists mostly of high-fired stoneware and porcelain pieces, released as small series or as one-of-a-kind pieces. Her abstract paintings, on the other hand, consist of intuitive ink brushstrokes on handmade paper and acrylics on canvas.