Lava
A folded vessel series built around volcanic edges and cooled magma interiors. Small-format pieces (approx. 20 × 20 cm) with layered glaze tests in honey and black.
Ceramist · ISO Amsterdam · Est. 2024
Naomi
& Clay
Hand-built ceramic objects — vessels, candleholders, and small sculptures shaped by a researcher's eye for folds, drapery, and the architecture of soft tissue. Each piece is one of one, fired slow, finished by hand.
§ 01 — Selected Work2024 — 2026
A small catalogue
of recent objects.
001
Drapery Candleholder
Hand-built stoneware, unglazed bisque. Tallow taper, 22mm.
2026
002
Spiral Twist
Coiled and pinched, fired to cone 6. Edition of one.
2026
003
Folded Vessel
Slab-built porcelain, exterior unfinished, interior burnished.
2025
004
Glaze Studies, iron
Series of test tiles in iron-saturate and ash. Studio archive.
2025
005
Stalagmite, low
Press-moulded base, drip-built upper. Site-specific commission.
2024
§ 02 — In the StudioAbout
Slow hands,
slower kilns.
Naomi Tromp makes ceramic objects that look like they were found, not made — small geological events, paused mid-fold.
Naomi was born on 10 August and is originally from Aruba. She studied biomedical research at Utrecht University. She loves to travel, loses herself in house music and dance, and moves through life with a lot of heart — quick to care for the people around her.
She came to clay sideways from that scientific training — through years spent looking at folded membranes, neural sheaths, and the way soft structures stiffen into shape.
Island-led work sometimes turns toward the reef — the quiet pastel world just below the surface, where light and coral meet. A recent study in that vein carries the working title Reef Memory (also Salt Light / Below the Blue): soft glaze, irregular edges, and colours borrowed from the Aruban landscape and flag.
Forms are built by hand from the base upward — coiled, pinched, pulled — never thrown. The studio is small and the kiln is slow. Most pieces are unique; a few quiet editions exist for candleholders and lowware. Private commissions taken in limited number each year.
"I'm interested in the moment a soft thing becomes permanent —
the second the cloth turns to stone."
§ 03 — CollectionsCurrent Bodies of Work
Recent collections
and material notes.
Phantom Love
Twisted vertical candle forms developed from the idea that paths in life remain connected, where one outcome becomes the start of another. Multiple glaze passes create deep marbling and fluid surface movement.
Undamalanta
A larger horizontal work informed by the outline of Aruba and coastal motion — hand-shaped at roughly 40 cm with wave-like ridges, a grounding form that carries island memory into the studio.
Reef Memory
Working titles · Salt Light · Below the Blue
This piece reflects the pastel world beneath Aruba’s surface, where yellow coral fades into clear blue water. Soft blues dissolve into muted yellows, echoing the way light moves beneath the sea.
Drawn from the same colours carried through the Aruban landscape and flag, the palette feels both natural and deeply familiar. Its shifting edges borrow from living reef formations — delicate, irregular, and slowly formed.
A quiet study of colour, softness, and the stillness held underwater.
MoM, Thank You
Intimate vertical forms inspired by umbilical cord references, blood tones, and earthy transitions. A personal series about origin, care, and inherited movement.
§ 04 — CorrespondenceContact
- Studio
- ISO Amsterdam · Isolatorweg 17, 1014 AS
- Visits
- By appointment
- @naomitromp98
- Roots
- Aruba & the Netherlands
- Background
- Biomedical research, Utrecht University — now in clay.
