Ceramics
Anna Kesäniemi · Helsinki
Anna Kesäniemi is a visual artist based in Helsinki whose practice moves between ceramics, illustration, textile design, and painting. Guided by colour, pattern, and nature inspired themes, her work explores playful compositions through a tactile and illustrative visual language.
With a background in graphic design and illustration, Anna approaches each material as a different way of making ideas visible. Her ceramic works balance precision with spontaneity, allowing glaze, texture, and form to evolve through process and experimentation. Drawing from everyday observations, architecture, nature, and moments from family life, she creates pieces that invite curiosity, attention, and a sense of lightness.
Our selection of unique ceramic butterfly reliefs reflects Anna’s interest in colour, detail, and the expressive possibilities of clay. Each glazed stoneware piece is shaped and finished by hand in her Helsinki studio, carrying a playful presence alongside the tactile traces of making.
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Hand-built in glazed stoneware by Anna Kesäniemi in Helsinki, Miss Sunshine explores colour, texture, and playful composition through an illustrative ceramic language. Shaped and finished by hand, the butterfly relief combines detailed glaze work with tactile surface variations, allowing light and colour to shift across the piece. Created to bring a sense of joy, hope, and lightness, the work invites a more thoughtful connection to the objects we choose to live with.
Hand-built in glazed stoneware by Anna Kesäniemi in Helsinki, Side by Side reflects the artist’s interest in colour, pattern, and the expressive possibilities of clay. Through layered glaze details and a carefully shaped surface, the butterfly relief balances precision with spontaneity, creating a piece that feels both playful and tactile. Created to bring a sense of joy, hope, and lightness, each singular work carries its own quiet presence.
Hand-built in glazed stoneware by Anna Kesäniemi in Helsinki, Butterfly Endless Bloom explores colour, form, and texture through a tactile ceramic surface. Guided by an illustrative and playful visual language, the butterfly relief is shaped and glazed by hand, allowing each detail to evolve through process and experimentation. Created to bring a sense of joy, hope, and lightness, the piece invites a more thoughtful connection to the objects we choose to live with.
Hand-built in glazed stoneware by Anna Kesäniemi in Helsinki, Love in a Mist draws from nature inspired forms and Anna’s intuitive approach to colour and composition. The relief’s hand-finished glaze surface highlights subtle variations in texture and detail, allowing the piece to hold both softness and vibrancy. Created to bring a sense of joy, hope, and lightness, the work offers a tactile and lasting presence shaped through attentive making.