Claire Horsten

Claire Horsten is a Belgian ceramicist and interior architect whose work explores how material, form and light meet. She earned a master’s degree in Interior Architecture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and took up ceramics in 2019. Since then she has developed a distinctive visual language of unglazed clay, natural earth tones, precision and a strong sense of proportion. She works almost exclusively with raw clay and uses glaze only where function requires it, so every surface stays honest and keeps a trace of the making process. “Clay remembers every touch,” she says. “Each piece carries a trace of the process, of care and attention.”

For Serax, Horsten translates this approach into Leo and Illumina, two collections of ceramic designer table lamps that explore light through soft, rounded forms and architectural geometry.