Halima Cassell 'Eclipsis' Framed Sculpture Available

Artist: Halima Cassell
Title: Eclipsis
Medium: Framed Jesmonite Tile
Size: 27 x 45 x 6.6 cm
Edition: 100
Prices: £800

 

Halima Cassell is a British Pakistani artist celebrated for geometric ceramic reliefs that feel carved from geology rather than clay. Born in 1975 in Pakistan and raised in Lancashire, she blends Islamic pattern, Bauhaus clarity and a builder’s instinct for structure. Each hand-pressed tile or vessel begins as a sketched grid, then grows through deep incisions that create stepped shadows, fractal pockets and rhythmic terraces. Earthy oxides and metallic slips are flooded into the recesses before a single high-temperature firing, locking vibrant turquoises, indigos and rusts beneath a glassy skin. The finished pieces read like miniature cliff faces or quarries sliced into perfect cubes, inviting touch as much as gaze. Although the work nods to Mughal jali screens and North African tilework, Cassell’s vocabulary is resolutely her own: sharp facets, spiralling cubes and sudden voids that breathe. Public commissions range from a three-metre relief at the British Embassy in Dubai to a permanent pavilion floor at London’s Olympic Park, proving her patterns can expand from palm-sized tile to civic monument without losing intimacy. Alongside large scale works she produces limited studio editions such as the cast stone relief VEN available through The Hepworth Wakefield shop, a pocket-sized distillation of her chiselled language that collectors can hold in one hand. Whether working in scarlet stoneware or monochrome concrete, Cassell continues to quarry order from chaos, turning humble clay into architectural poetry that crosses continents and craft traditions.

Halima Cassell 'Venn' Framed Sculpture Available

Artist: Halima Cassell
Title: Venn
Medium: Framed Jesmonite Tile
Size: 27 x 45 x 6.6 cm
Edition: 100
Prices: £800

Halima Cassell is a British Pakistani artist celebrated for geometric ceramic reliefs that feel carved from geology rather than clay. Born in 1975 in Pakistan and raised in Lancashire, she blends Islamic pattern, Bauhaus clarity and a builder’s instinct for structure. Each hand-pressed tile or vessel begins as a sketched grid, then grows through deep incisions that create stepped shadows, fractal pockets and rhythmic terraces. Earthy oxides and metallic slips are flooded into the recesses before a single high-temperature firing, locking vibrant turquoises, indigos and rusts beneath a glassy skin. The finished pieces read like miniature cliff faces or quarries sliced into perfect cubes, inviting touch as much as gaze. Although the work nods to Mughal jali screens and North African tilework, Cassell’s vocabulary is resolutely her own: sharp facets, spiralling cubes and sudden voids that breathe. Public commissions range from a three-metre relief at the British Embassy in Dubai to a permanent pavilion floor at London’s Olympic Park, proving her patterns can expand from palm-sized tile to civic monument without losing intimacy. Alongside large scale works she produces limited studio editions such as the cast stone relief VEN available through The Hepworth Wakefield shop, a pocket-sized distillation of her chiselled language that collectors can hold in one hand. Whether working in scarlet stoneware or monochrome concrete, Cassell continues to quarry order from chaos, turning humble clay into architectural poetry that crosses continents and craft traditions.