Swimmer on Brighton Beach

Lotta Cole-Hatvany is a Swedish ceramic artist, interior designer living in Brighton.

Her ‘Brighton People’ collection of ceramic figures combine two of Lotta’s favourite things in life; people watching and sculpting clay. “There is such an amazing array of different people in Brighton and I wanted to capture the essence of this colourful crowd in individual and expressive figurines”. They are sculpted out of stoneware, bisque fired and glazed. Their shapes are inspired by traditional Swedish decorative handicrafts from Dalarna, the region in Sweden where Lotta’s family originates.

Lotta graduated in 2004 with a first class honours degree in Interior Design before working for award-winning architects Jestico + Whiles where she was lead interior designer on many high-end commercial projects. Lotta then set up her own interiors practice where she completed several residential projects in west London, at the same time as running her homewares business. Her handmade wooden homeware products were sold in The Design Museum Shop, Heals and many London boutiques. The various types of wood were sourced from her family’s forest in Sweden. After moving to California in 2017 Lotta made sculpting ceramics her focus and has continued this love of sculpting in her art studio in the North Laines of Brighton.

Width 10.5 cm  Height 17.5 cm