Professional work

Olaf Stevens has his own business at his studio in Gorinchem. Helds a professorial post at the Academy for Industrial Design at Eindhoven. He was already teaching at the Department of Ceramics of the Art Design Foundation at Tilburg  and at the Free Academy for Visual Arts at The Hague. Has Continual exchanges with colleagues of renown, at various workshops and symposia. Numerous international exhibitions and publications pay tribute to his work in the fine arts, including museum exhibitions in Madrid, Linz, Helsinki, Taipe and Baltimore.

Clients for whom Olaf Stevens designs in the glass and porcelain industry includes such prestigious names as Rosenthal, Ritzenhoff, Sieger Design, Royal Leerdam and Hoya, and in doing so, he loses nothing of his typical style. For all the fine crafting of his work, Stevens always uses the most modern means available to develop his ideas and designs - Unlike many designers, he often alludes in his motifs to elements of modern life, liking to include motifs such as aeroplanes or cars as little symbols in decors that appear archaic at first glance. Thus, the persuasiveness of Stevens’s designs lies not only in their aesthetic quality, but also in the humorous glint that is his and which cannot but flow into his work.

- Biographical Note
Olaf Stevens was born in Tilburg, in the Netherlands. Soon after his secondary education, he enrolled on an art degree course at the Royal Academy for Art and Design at s’Hertogenbosch and the St. Joost Academy of Art at Breda; he was twice awarded a grant by the Centre of Work in Ceramics in Heusden and granted Stipendia from FVBKVB, Amsterdam. After a series of exhibitions traveling around in the US with the final presentation and lectures in Baltimore Olaf Stevens was ( amongst others) granted a Honorary Citizenship of the city of Baltimore.