Come into my world
Sculptural ceramics about identity, belonging and becoming.
I’m Ingrid, the artist behind Studio Wild Orange.
I create bold sculptural ceramics — totems, wall sculptures and objects that explore identity, courage, belonging and becoming.
My work moves between art and design. I’m drawn to the tension between organic forms and bold geometry, between what is imperfect and what is intentional. I work by hand, allowing the material to guide the process and leaving space for irregularity, texture and the traces of making.
Artist statement
I have always been fascinated by the way people give meaning to places and objects.
Throughout history, we have created totems, standing stones, cairns and monuments to mark a place, communicate, remember and belong. They are physical expressions of something deeply human: the desire to create meaning, to leave a mark and to make sense of where we are.
This idea is at the heart of my work.
I create contemporary sculptural markers, objects that can hold a feeling, a memory or a moment of transformation. They can represent courage, identity or change, or simply give form to something that is difficult to put into words.
Nature is an important part of this thinking. Living and working in the Andalusian landscape, I am constantly surrounded by a world that is changing, adapting and reshaping itself. Mountains erode, plants find their way through existing structures, and landscapes are continuously formed by forces beyond our control.
I work primarily with clay because it connects my work directly to the earth. It is raw, tactile and unpredictable. I build each element by hand, without moulds, creating individual parts, objects and structures.
But making the individual parts is only the beginning.
The second part of my process is puzzling. I bring the separate elements together and place, move, turn, remove and restructure them until a new whole emerges. I never know beforehand what the final sculpture will look like. The work reveals itself through this process.
For me, this is also a reflection of how we create our own lives. We collect experiences, relationships, memories, choices and beliefs. We place them, rearrange them and sometimes have to take them apart and build them differently.
This can feel confusing. We often believe that once something has been built, it should remain that way. But nature shows us otherwise. Reshaping is not a failure. It is a natural part of life.
Through my work, I want people to recognise their own pieces within the whole. To feel that things can be rearranged, that a different configuration is possible, and that changing the shape of your life does not mean losing who you are.
I want my sculptures to create a feeling of possibility and perhaps the confidence to reshape something of your own.
My story
I didn’t start my journey as an artist in the traditional way.
I discovered ceramics later in life, after 50, at a moment when I was questioning what came next.
I had already lived several lives, built businesses, experienced loss and change, and eventually made the decision to start living in Spain. Just as an experiment I started to live in our holiday home.
That journey changed the way I look at identity. I miss my home in the Netherlands but I need somehow the nature I surrounded with in Spain. I realised I miss people the most. And I start asking myself where do I belong. What is my identity?
We often think of identity as something fixed. But life has taught me that it is something we continuously shape, lose, discover and rebuild.
That became the foundation for Studio Wild Orange.
What started as an exploration of ceramics gradually became a deeper investigation into who we are, what makes us feel that we belong, and what happens when we dare to begin again. My way of creating or puzzling comes from here. I puzzle my vertical and wallscculptures together.
Today I work from my studio in Andalusia, Spain, creating each piece by hand.
The work is a reflection of that journey: imperfect, sometimes unexpected, but always moving forward.
For who
Studio Wild Orange is for people who don't simply want to decorate their home. You want something different. Objects with a story. Unique objects. Handcrafted. Made with attention.
Objects that make you feel something. Objects that are not mass produced. And speak for themselves.
Pieces with character.
Pieces with a story.
Pieces with a soul.
They stay when you change your interior or home because they have a meaning.