The Artist

The hand
behind every
stem.

Claudia is a botanical artist and floral designer based in Southern California. Her practice began in 2019 with a single bunch of dried pampas and a refusal to let natural beauty fade.

Working entirely with natural materials, grasses, seed pods, branches, and florals; she creates arrangements that speak to stillness, memory, and the quiet dignity of things left to dry in good care.

Her work has been shown and collected by interior designers, private collectors, and cultural institutions. Every piece is made by hand, one at a time, with care.

Clau

Botanical Artist & Founder

Principles

What guides
every piece.

Slowness

Each arrangement takes days — not hours. There is no rushing the drying process, and no rushing the composition. Deliberateness is built into the method.

Material honesty

No dyes, no bleaches beyond sun-curing, no artificial forms. The materials are exactly what they appear to be: dried, gathered, and placed with intention.

Context & space

Arrangements are never designed in isolation. The space, the light, the surface — every piece is considered as part of a larger environment it will inhabit.

Longevity

Dried botanicals outlast fresh arrangements by years. The work is made to be kept — handed down, repurposed, and loved as it continues to age and shift.

Philosophy

On preserving
what passes

There is something profound in the decision to keep rather than discard. When a stem of wheat reaches its peak — heavy, golden, exactly right — the impulse is to let it be. Drying is an act of that same impulse made permanent.

"I am not stopping time. I am choosing a moment and declaring it worth keeping."

The studio practice is deeply seasonal. Teva works with what is available, when it is available — travelling to source botanicals in bloom and returning to dry, sort, and sit with the material before a single arrangement is begun.

This relationship with time and material is visible in the work. There is no impatience in the compositions — only a quiet certainty about where each element belongs.

Journey

A studio
in time

2019

Studio founded

Teva Wonders began in a small apartment in Tel Aviv — a single wire rack of drying botanicals and a growing obsession with the texture of things left to age in natural light.

2020

First commissioned work

A hotel lobby in Jaffa commissioned a large-scale installation — fifteen hanging bundles of dried grasses and eucalyptus, filling a five-metre ceiling. It marked the studio's first institutional piece.

2021

Shadow Garden — debut solo exhibition

Ten works shown at Galerie Terrain, Paris. The series explored shadow as a compositional element, with arrangements designed to cast specific forms as the light moved through the day.

2022

Studio relocates to Northern California

A new studio in Sonoma County opened access to wildflower meadows, coastal grasses, and oak woodlands. The landscape fundamentally changed the material palette of the work.

2023

Still Waters — group exhibition, New York

Featured alongside four other botanical artists at the Bleecker Arts Center. Teva's Still Waters series drew comparisons to minimalist sculpture and sold out within the opening week.

2024

Solstice — largest collection to date

Twelve pieces debuted at Design Miami and subsequently toured to London and Tokyo. The collection is widely considered the studio's most mature and personal body of work.

Commission & Inquire

Work with Teva

Teva accepts a limited number of private commissions each year. Whether you are looking for a specific piece, a custom arrangement for a space, or a large-scale installation, every inquiry is welcome.

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The handbehind everystem.

What guidesevery piece.