Patrizia Helene Litty is an artist & designer known for her contemporary jewellery design and since a few years for her ceramic work.
For more than 20 years, she held the position of creative director at ANPA Jewellery, South Africa. She is recognized for her bold, mixed media pieces with a focus on gemstones.
Born in Europe, she studied at the “Blocherer Schule – Grafik Design & Freie Malerei” (Blocherer College for Graphic Design & Fine Art) during the 1980s.
In 1992, she settled in Cape Town, South Africa where she founded ANPA together with her husband.
In 2022, she changed medium and embarked on an intense exploration of ceramic art. Since then she has concentrated on master classes by international teachers in order to fast track technique as well creative vision in clay.
Patrizia studied/s ceramics with Cristina Cordova, Sabine Classen, Grace Han, Akira Satake, John Colbeck, Sara Kirschen, Anthony Shapiro and Lucca Tripaldi.
In order to broaden her ceramic vocabulary, she participated in residencies in Italy, Spain and Bali.
Her current work encompasses the vessel as an objet d’art in search for her identity as a Euro-African as well as explores the female body in figurative sculpture.
She works from her atelier south of Cape Town and exhibits at the ANPA gallery in Kalk Bay.