Sculptors Natalie and Richard Surving craft ceramic bas-relief art tiles featuring reptiles, amphibians, insects, and foliage that combine with their line of high-relief field tiles to create custom wall or backsplash murals, shower installations, swimming pools, fireplaces, fountains, and more.
The pair confers with clients for complicated configurations, going through design possibilities. Using a computer program, the Survings can reconfigure, recolor, and recut their full line of standard tiles as the client dictates, lay them out in a design, then send color mock-ups for approval. Surving Studios offers a wide array of satin matte color options, but custom colors are also possible.
The Survings combine their talents to deliver precisely what their clients ask for. Natalie frequently sketches from living objects she’s seen, and “if there’s a unique problem with a certain job, Richard is brilliant at solving it,” she says. They also create fountains and sculptures, and sometimes combine the two.
Each custom tile configuration ships to the dealer or the job-site with a full-color rendition of its layout. 845.355.1430. www.surving.com. Circle 170.
