Our collaboration with The Poster Club
Some collaborations feel natural from the very beginning. Our collaboration with The Poster Club became exactly that.
https://theposterclub.com/artists/atelier-ars-ana/
Over the past half year, we slowly developed a collection of ceramic wall objects together sketching ideas, testing surfaces, creating prototypes, rejecting pieces, and starting again. What became Between Sea and Sky grew through patience, repetition, and craft.
Before arriving at the final collection, we created five different series of samples. Some felt too decorative, others too distant from the emotional language we were searching for. We kept returning to one question:
How can an object feel intimate, quiet, and timeless at the same time?
Each relief was shaped and painted by hand in our atelier in Romania. The process became less about perfection and more about allowing the material, gestures, and small imperfections to remain visible inside the work itself.
The result is a collection of three ceramic wall objects exploring transition, softness, and the invisible space between sea and sky.
Form, Surface and Story
At Atelier Ars Ana, our practice moves between ceramics, painting, murals and illustration, with storytelling remaining at the centre of everything we create.
We often think of ceramics as a form of slow time, objects shaped gradually through repetition, intuition and touch. We are especially drawn to white porcelain, cobalt blue and fluid lines that allow the material to feel both fragile and permanent at once.
Rather than working towards a perfectly defined outcome, we approach the process as an open search, where imperfections and unexpected gestures become part of the final form.
Recurring elements continue to appear throughout our work: birds, water, horizons and simplified human figures, slowly forming a personal visual mythology that carries from one medium into another.
The Flyer
The Flyer depicts a floating figure surrounded by birds.
For us, the work speaks about surrender rather than control, understanding that flight is not conquered, but received.
The birds become both garment and path, carrying the figure between earth and sky in a state of quiet presence.
It is a piece about movement, balance and the tender courage of remaining open to life.
The Dreamer
The Dreamer emerged from a very simple image: a figure looking into the eyes of a bird.
Nothing spectacular happens. The gesture is small, almost silent, yet it contains attention, closeness and recognition.
The work reflects our ongoing interest in the invisible relationship between human presence and the natural world, the fragile thread that quietly connects them.
The Diver
In The Diver, the body enters water and becomes lighter, almost suspended.
The fish are not symbols of distance or mystery, but companions moving alongside the figure. Together they create a choreography without hierarchy, a space where there is no clear above or below.
For us, the piece became a meditation on immersion, transformation and return.
Between Sea and Sky
Across the collection, the figures exist in transition, somewhere between stillness and movement, between grounding and weightlessness, between sea and sky.
These works continue our desire to create objects that feel both intimate and timeless: slow objects meant to hold stories, emotions and states of being.
The collection is now available through The Poster Club.
