Anita Le Grelle

After working in advertising and interior design, it was out of a sense of calling that Anita Le Grelle turned to sculpture and ceramics, driven by the same passion for working with clay, a craft so dear to her heart. Anita Le Grelle began her career by studying graphic design in Antwerp, her hometown. Having explored the world of advertising, the artist decided to follow her dream and train in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London, from which she graduated with a Master’s degree in 2000. A lover of the fantastical, she exhibited her creative work for over a decade in numerous galleries, particularly in Belgium and England. It was one of her signature works – a reproduction of the Towers of Babel in wood, sand and ceramics – that defined Anita le Grelle’s work before she turned her attention to tableware.

The departure of her fifth and youngest child gave Anita le Grelle the perfect opportunity to devote herself entirely to her art. She says she spends more than twelve hours a day in her ceramics studio exploring her creativity.

Having settled into a new studio in Brussels, it was in 2013 that the artist decided to dismantle one of her earlier pieces. She first reshaped the reclaimed clay into a small bowl, then a plate, eventually creating the ‘Terre de rêves’ tableware collection.

As part of this first collaboration with Serax, she has created a highly accomplished tableware collection featuring unique colours and shapes, made all the more remarkable by the subtlety born of her perfect understanding of clay. Plates, bowls, cups, dishes and vases come together and blend in this highly elaborate collection, where shades drawn from nature – stone grey, sky blue and earth red – enrich one another with their nuances. The admirable craftsmanship in stoneware, driven by Anita Le Grelle’s eye for detail, transports us into a dreamlike world, as indeed the name of her collection for Serax suggests.