Darcmatter Ceramics studio was founded by Denise Aimee Rijnen in 2015 in Amsterdam. In 2023 she took a leap of faith with her partner and started on the restoration of an old baita in the Italian alps adding a studio in Breda in 2026.

Out of various research projects in Japan, Switzerland and the south of Spain working with raw materials and the ever-changing flux of metamorphosis that they undergo at different speeds of becoming, Denise became interested in working with clay and becoming an agent of metamorphosis myself.

All items are designed and hand produced on the throwing wheel by Denise personally. In her work she pays hommage to the tactility of rocks, from a smooth polished surface to a grainy rough surface. In most items you can find a contrast between those two. 

More about my material research projects
https://tsoeg.org/artists/darc-matter-denise-aimee-rijnen/