Connecting you and your senses with delightful things.
Cosa Senti features a collection of beautiful handmade things. We are sentimental and driven by slow ritual, the makers mark and a deeper appreciation of everyday experiences. With the change of each season Cosa Senti will invite new talented artists and makers as we explore materiality and sensuality.
Artists & Makers
Hannah Wolter
Joining Cosa Senti for the Spring/Summer 22/23 Collection.
Hannah is a part-time potter, architecture graduate and mum based in Wellington. She has been making pots for around six years, becoming hooked on wheel throwing after doing a beginner's course in Melbourne in 2016.
Hannah is interested in the chemistry of glazing and the varying effects created through different kiln atmospheres and temperatures. Through study at SoCA School of Art and Clay in Melbourne, Hannah learned to develop her own glazes, which are layered to create depth and texture. Her architectural background influences some of her forms and she particularly enjoys the meditative process of assembling a teapot.
Carina Webb
Joining Cosa Senti for the Spring/Summer 22/23 Collection.
Carina a storyteller, experience maker, and object creator. Inspired by symbols, rituals, dreams, and tales, she approaches design in a playful way that seeks to bring a smile to people’s faces or trigger an emotion.
Ever the pluralist, her work spans across different disciplines, materials, and art forms, creating objects that are immediately compelling, but endurably engaging.
Carina is an experienced industrial designer with the most meticulous attention to detail and a highly skilled level of craft makes each of her pieces magic. Everything she creates is worth its weight in gold and Cosa Senti is delighted to be able to showcase some of Carina’s exquisite work.
Nina Chechelashvili
Joining Cosa Senti for the Winter 22 Collection.
Nina Chechelashvili is a ceramicist born in Georgia and raised in New Zealand. With a background in textile design, material science is the foundation of her practice. Using raw materials to create glazes and unique blends of clay, she plays with colour, texture and surface treatment in each of her handbuilt pieces. Her work explores themes of fantasy and utopianism, mixing the primitive and futuristic, natural and artificial to offer little glimpses into new worlds.
In 2018 she was a finalist in the Quartz Museum Emerging Practitioner in Clay Award, before travelling to Denmark for an artist residency at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center. She now works out of her garden studio in Auckland, continuing to be inspired by magic of nature and the alchemy of ceramics.
Esther Deans
Esther is a painter currently living and working in her hometown of Peel Forest, in rural New Zealand. She has pursued art as a career for around ten years, completing a master’s degree in visual arts in 2019, and she is currently studying towards her PhD in visual arts from Auckland University of Technology. Esther draws on the history of Symbolism and of figurative painting to create images that often hover somewhere between the observed and the imagined and that explore our perceptions of both the physical world and the unseen world that exists, or might exist, just beyond it.
Imogen Zino
Imogen is the founder of Cosa Senti which has been a dream of hers for many years. Inspired by the idea of bringing together and showcasing the work of talented artists, makers and friends she has created this platform to do just that. As designer and maker herself, Imogen is currently based in Auckland and for many years now, her practice has centred around different ways of engaging the senses through objects and touch. Exploring sentimentality, materials and ways of experiencing the world is her driving force.
Jenny Rice
Jenny Rice is a ceramicist based in Portland, Oregon. The way she creates is tactile and intuitive in nature. Her organic forms and attention to detail make her pieces truly unique. Jenny’s vessels are made using coiling and pinching techniques, her hands imprinted on each piece. No two are the same and the charm and quality of her work is rare and delightful.
Charlotte Huddleston
Joining Cosa Senti in the Autumn Collection.
Charlotte is based in the South Island and makes hand-built objects using simple pinching, rolling, stamping, and carving techniques. Motivated by the desire to make for pleasure and joy, her approach is responsive, deliberately compact, and small scale with simple and minimal tools required. Charlotte’s pieces are thoughtful, delightful to hold and her silk-satin glazes are soothing to the touch.
Angela Francis
One of a Kind Ceramics
Angela is a Wellington based ceramic artist. As a long time maker, she has experimented with and mastered many different creative practices. Cosa Senti will feature her One of a Kind Ceramic porcelain pieces. All of which are hand rolled and shaped using moulds. Angela embraces the way the fine porcelain distorts during firing and this is part of what creates her uniquely organic forms.
Gabrielle McKone
Gabrielle has been a maker for many years. She is based in Wellington and has worked across a range of disciplines and mediums. Practicing photography and taking a photo a day every for 11 years, Gabrielle has published stunning photography books. Her other love is the garden. Through this she has developed a unique and delightful way of working with scents and will provide Cosa Senti with an alluring olfactory experience.
Katharine Gebbie
Katharine is a former Architect and Textile artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. Creating her dyes from natural sources such as: lichen, walnut shells, chamomile flowers, gum leaves, onion skins, acorns, avocado skins and harakeke flowers. Katharine is an expert hand-knitter and for many years has taught knitting in the Wellington region. She also uses an antique sock-knitting machine to create her wonderful socks and is continuing to expand her knitting and dyeing repertoire all the time.