Art Fired to Life

Art brought to life through handmade ceramics that unite timeless techniques with contemporary design.

Linné Sharpe is a ceramic artist and visual practitioner based in Hovden, Setesdal, Norway, where she works from her mountain studio and workshop. After living in Paris for more than a decade, she and her husband relocated to Setesdal, where she continues to develop her artistic practice while maintaining strong international influences. Exploring between material, form, and the quiet poetry of everyday objects.

Before establishing her ceramic practice, Sharpe spent over sixteen years working internationally within fashion and retail in Norway, Paris, and the United States. During this time she developed a deep understanding of branding, visual storytelling, and the dynamics of the global fashion industry. This experience continues to inform her artistic work through a strong sensitivity to material, composition, and identity.

Sharpe holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Design from ESMOD Paris, and has also studied art and acting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and at the Agder School of Art & Design in Norway. Growing up in a creative environment in Søgne, she developed an early interest in art, materials, form, and craftsmanship.

Pottery Studio

Today she co-runs the pottery studio on Hovden together with ceramicist Kari Nomeland-Strømsøe, where they offer courses, memberships, artistic commissions, and creative events such as workshops and private gatherings. The studio serves both as a place of production and as a social space for learning, creativity, and shared making.

Sharpe primarily works with stoneware and porcelain, balancing functionality and aesthetics to create objects that are both timeless and durable. Her work is fired in electric kilns with a focus on precision, craftsmanship, and material integrity.

Her practice exists in the space between functional design and sculptural expression. Through subtle shifts in volume, opening, and balance, she explores how form influences both the physical and emotional experience of an object.

She also experiments with natural and locally sourced materials from the surrounding landscape, using them to develop distinctive surfaces and place-specific expressions.

Sharpe’s work moves fluidly between craft, functional design, and sculptural form — ranging from tableware and lighting to more experimental objects. Through a material-driven practice she seeks to unite the functional with the poetic.

Within this approach, everyday forms such as cups, plates, and vessels become sites of quiet exploration. Her work examines subtle states of tension, contraction, and expansion, and how these can be experienced through touch and bodily interaction. For Sharpe, ceramics becomes a dialogue between body, material, and form.

Landscape & Spatial Design

Alongside her artistic practice, Sharpe also works with design, planning, and the development of outdoor environments. Through her involvement in the family company Uleberg Maskin & Transport AS, she contributes to exterieur design, landscape construction, stonework, and infrastructure for cabins and mountain environments. This experience has inspired her interest in resilient mountain gardens and survival gardens — botanical environments that combine aesthetics, sustainability, and preparedness.

Sharpe approaches landscape design as a holistic spatial practice that connects indoor and outdoor environments. She has also designed and built trackless geodesic domes as conceptual spaces for gathering, living, and experiencing nature.

Parallel to her ceramic work, she continues to explore illustration, painting, and textile techniques including weaving — disciplines that inform her understanding of structure, rhythm, and materiality.

Practice

• Artistic practice

• International experience

• Landscape and entrepreneurship

• Garden ecology

• Interdisciplinary work