MY STORY

Business is bread. Art is butter. I chose bread for years — and nearly starved in a different way.

I grew up across countries and continents, it felt second nature to keep moving and to look for somewhere to go next. A corporate ladder followed: startups, venture capital, consulting. Fast, competitive, relentless. At 35, I ended up burnt out and empty.

The pivot, when it came, felt less like a fall and more like an arrival. Art had always come naturally to me, I'd just been choosing bread because I was scared. In early 2026, in Barcelona — the city I'd called home for years — I finally realised what is scary is if I continue down the wrong path.

And so, I made the biggest change of my life and created HOSS.

Every piece is hand-built in slabs, made slowly and in small numbers. No glaze, mostly — just raw stoneware in shades of volcanic and sand stone, the colors of the Mediterranean I've been living beside. Imperfect on purpose. Permanent by design.

I split my time now between Barcelona and Porto. The work travels with me as the collections grow.

Turns out butter is enough.

MY ARTWORK

HOSS is a ceramic studio devoted to objects that feel quiet, tactile, and enduring. Each piece begins as a study in proportion and surface observation, shaped slowly by hand so the final form carries both clarity and irregularity.

The studio works with mineral-rich clays and restrained finishes that keep the material close to its raw state. Speckling, sand tones, and fired depth are treated not as decoration, but as part of the architecture of each object.

Across vessels, lighting, and sculptural forms, my pieces sit quietly within a room while holding their own presence. The work is grounded in repetition, revision, and the physical intelligence of making, with each collection refined until it feels balanced, elemental, and lasting.