Clara Holt

Clara Holt is an Italian artist specializing in ceramics and printmaking.

She works primarily on the wheel or slab, creating vases, functional ceramics, and decorative tile murals. She employs a variety of techniques, including majolica, underglaze painting, and especially sgraffito.

Always passionate about mythology and ancient Greek literature, Clara's work focuses on narrative, a constant urge to recount stories, characters, and experiences, often inspired by legends, real or fantastic tales of the places she lives or explores. Her subjects are often inspired by fairy tales and folktales, by traditional stories and those full of symbols, which speak to us of the more irrational, unconscious, and hidden sides of human nature.

But also because of the intrinsic nature of these stories, distant in time, often told orally or of which only a portion is known, Clara enjoys reinterpreting and inventing them anew, playing with words and images. Each character is thus transformed into entirely personal representations.

Clara works primarily in her studio in Milan, but travels frequently to participate in artist residencies or teach decoration courses. She has exhibited her work in Italy and abroad.