Axelle Delhaye

Axelle Delhaye's relationship with ceramics began in childhood, shaping imaginative pieces alongside her grandmother in a family steeped in artistic tradition. She went on to study painting at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, but it was ceramics that became her most direct and intimate means of expression, a craft rooted in that early domestic lineage and guided by an intuitive, playful approach to making.
Working in stoneware, Delhaye applies underglaze and uses sgraffito, drawing and scratching directly into the clay surface, to build imagery defined by texture, mark, and silhouette. Her palette is deliberately restrained, often limited to one or two block tones, keeping the focus on form and gesture. Inspired by the naïve vision of painters like Henri Rousseau, she embraces imperfection and accident as essential parts of her process: shapes arise by chance, and no piece is overworked. The result is what she calls "unprepared objects," pieces that feel at once wild and still, like a jungle where chaos and calm coexist.
Her collaboration with Serax brings this unruly, intimate way of making to a wider audience through her Interior Accessories collection, translating her instinctive craft into objects that are as full of life as they are of quiet poetry.