Southern Art Ceramics

This Is A Perfect Example On How To Design A Harmonious Kitchen!

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:35:25 +0000

By using a variety of design elements, Xperiencemakers created a harmonious interior for this Stellenbosch client.

Our small tiles on the wall, all in cream with the checkerboard arrangement of large tiles on the floor contrast with the raw clay brick at the entrance to the kitchen.

The use of colour, with the cream on the walls, cabinets and stove binding the contrasting green and reds of the cabinets at either side, creates a lively and all so homely kitchen.

The deeper tones of natural wood creates the necassary depth.

What else can you learn from this image?

View the full post with extra images, and some other inginious design elements with the use of words.

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Refreshing A Kitchen With Plain Washed-out Gray Hand Pressed Tiles!

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:18:58 +0000

The client, an artist herself, enquired about patterned tiles to use behind her stove and bash basin as back-splash tiles.

I consulted with her, at the site, and advised her to opt for a rich plain tile that will compliment some of the paint techniques she uses on several of her paintings hanging in the area. In general her interior and objet d’art have a rich patina of colour and texture and there was no need for a big budget patterned tile.

Be so kind to view before and after pictures on www.handmadetiles.co.za

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Create An Opulent Living Habitat With Classic Blue & White Patterned Tiles.

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:43:15 +0000

Be so kind to view the development of this project here.

The demand for pattern as a decorative element is back! Interior designers, architects, clients, … have a healthy appetite for geometric designs, and not exclusively for wall use BUT on the floors as well.

The tiles were specially made to be flat and the patterns were all hand painted on a porcelain based clay body.

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Another Brand Baking Up A Storm With Delft Tiles!

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:10:37 +0000

Hot Foot It to Chefs n’ Icers for same retail therapy and enjoy the Delft-style hand painted and handmade tiles.
“They are beyond lovely Gerrit!
Wow!
Everyone I have shown is more than impressed.

Andrea Kleinloog”

“Here are some quick snap shots for you in the interim.”

The store will be professionally photographed soon and make sure not to miss the new pictures!

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Innovative Mix Of Glass Tiles And Inserts Of Hand Printed Words.

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:02:23 +0000

What a surprise!

And the next inserts are also off-beat and refreshing.

I shall add some more information at a later stage.

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Eat, Love & Pray Handmade Coffee Mugs!

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:19:30 +0000

Hundreds of requests came through for our high quality handmade dinnerware & ceramic coffee mugs - and the following image is an examples of what is to come!Hot Foot It to www.handmadetiles.co.za and grab it at a 25% discount!Our new hand cast porcelain based coffee mugs will be fresh, exciting and playful and you can be sure that each person in the family will take ownership of one of these cups!The idea is to paint One Of A Kind Mugs and even customize it for our clients kitchens!Enjoy!What else can we do for you?Southern Art Ceramic Design can create & produce:

Exclusive Promotional Coffee Mugs
Personalized Coffee Mugs
Special Mugs as Gifts
Printed and/or Transfer of unique logos and/or messages/phrases/words, etc.

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Smoky Aqua Green Handmade Tiles Are The Ideal Compliment For A Riverside Cottage.

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:00:08 +0000

We have just received this image, not the best, but good enough to give you an idea of the final installation.

View the lay-outs here.

Hi Gerrit and Gillian,

Thank you for the wonderful Halcyon Days tile panel that you made for our new kitchen at Malgas and especially for having them ready within the time frame that you advised. We love them and will definitely send you before/after photographs of the tile installation above the gas hob once it is complete. The installation of the kitchen cupboards will commence early October, so the installation of the tiles should be complete by mid to end October.

Enjoy the upcoming long weekend.

Kind regards,

Hi Gerrit and Gillian,

Thanks very much for pushing this through, with as they say, “A Dash of Speed”

Once you let us know that the tiles are ready, we will collect them, if it suits you on a Saturday morning on our way to the Breede River.

The builder phoned me to say that the tiles that have already been installed above the gas hob really looked fantastic - so well done Team Mytile!

Kind Regards,

Guy and Jay

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“What A Pleasure It Has Been Doing Business With You”

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:26:26 +0000

We often have surplus handmade and hand painted tiles available that an individual or decorator can use to revamp a neglected area.

This kitchen is a great example of what can be achieved with our handmade Delft tiles.

The client attempted to use the Delft tiles as inserts with cheaper CTM tiles, but once he has received and viewed our quality tiles, realized that he need to use tiles from our studio exclusively!

“Hi Gerrit,

What a search to get quality, startling and affordable “backsplash” tiles for a kitchen. After months and months of paging through kitchen and other interior decorating books and visits to tile shops, we decided to make a call to Slavin & Company and ask them if they could help us. They’ve given us the web info of someone who passed away some time ago but this led us to your website for the obvious reason – you had the solution.

What a pleasure it has been doing business with you – giving us the right advise, not pushing us into any direction, answering my e-mails very, very late at night, sending off parcels without any delay, bending backwards with your timing and your willingness to negotiate on the price.

It was such a pleasant and challenging exercise to build our own pattern – with each commissioning I guess you say that this is the best we’ve done – but ours must be the best ever!!! We get so many compliments that you should start paying advertising fees - to us.

I can keep on saying good and nice things about our end product and about Southern Art Ceramics Design – but my wife said I should not “gush” to much. Just a bit of advise to those who are busy renovating or building – do not waste time in searching for quality handmade tiles elsewhere – do yourself the favour and get the best from Southern Art Ceramics Design.

Thank you yet again for your great product and assistance.

Regards

Gerhard Basson”

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Art - Touch - Treasure - Uniquely South African - Superbly Executed By Hele’ Oosthuizen

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:15:21 +0000

Hele’ Oosthuizen specialize in the realistic rendering of Fynbos, Proteas, Birds and lately Cheetahs in a Bush veld scene.

Her career started at Southern Art Ceramic Design when she decided to halt her final year of a music degree at Stellenbosch University in favour of ceramic art.

The themes range from immaculately realistic fynbos and floral studies to the ultra realistic portrayal of bird species. Her work is unique in the South African art sphere as she utilizes the most fickle of mediums – the ceramic process!

Here is some of her smaller format work that sold recently.

Her ceramic work is bold and intense, some extroverted and flamboyant but always sensitive and peaceful.The preferred media that she works in is on a clay canvass using complex ceramic processes. Her inspiration for the special technique she uses in painting comes from being an avid bird watcher and living in Hermanus, surrounded by a World Heritage Site with one of the most spectacular diversity of the Fynbos biome.

Her development has not been defined by any formal field of artistic education, this provided her with the freedom to develop and nurture her natural skill to her own accord, resulting in a definitive, unique style and her ability to portray her subject matter in a style seldom seen in ceramics today.She continues on her journey of artistic exploration, and her work continues to increase in quality, stature and scale.

Her reputation as an artist capable of combining simplistic beauty, grace and flair in a style that has completely become her own has been recognized by collectors the world over.

The ceramic art murals and framed art, with a hearty splash of colour, will harmonize your daily life and offer a comforting embrace.

Similar artworks can purchased from our e-commerce website www.arttilegallery.com, or you are welcome to commission small to large scale murals from her.

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Nostalgic Delft Tiles Reflects A Wholesome Past And Future!

Gerrit Oosthuizen — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:45:06 +0000

We received this very special commission from Gert Gertzen Interiors for a prestigious new residential home on a farm near Stellenbosch.

“Hi Gerrit,

We will be needing 16 sq meter plus waste ? of tiles all of the fade look …..like 2-the farm yard , 1 delft style , 2delft style all with the grey back ground must have an old look about them.

Can you give me a idea of price before we going any further…..as my client loves your product.”

The final choice was the 1 in 3 image, with not one image repeating. Hundreds of farm animals, figures, birds, flowers, etc. were researched and hand painted in minute detail.

This new residential home is designed and build within the true Cape Dutch Vernicular but the request was for a Delft-style hand painted tile that was soft and not in your face. The artist received cartblanche with the decorative work and they proceeded at full throttle to paint hundreds of different images.

The animals, mostly related to farm-life, includes pigs, dogs, horses, sheep, cows, etc. and birds like roosters, chickens, ducks, peacocks, etc.

The figures were based on children playing, adults at work and play, hunters, horse riders, etc.

This property is newly redeveloped near Lanzerac in Stellenbosch, and a close resemblance of activities and farm life will be experienced when the viewer engage with these unique tiles.

The pre-fired tile looks quite different from the final product. Special clay bodies and glazes need to be used to achieve this high quality tile and unique finish. Originally Delft was based on low-fired Majolica glazes, but we seldom use low-fire techniques due to the high quality expected from professional teams.

Some of the tiles at the studio before sorting and dispatch. This order for 1700 tiles necessitated the production of 4200 tiles to ensure a successful delivery within the deadline received for this project.

“Ten einde laaste is die mure geteel en lyk baie goed………”

We are still waiting for the images of the final installations and I dearly hope to receive the approval to display it publicly on our websites.

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