Helen’s work embraces the crossover space between art, craft and design. She makes objects that play with our sense of what is familiar, functional and beautiful. Each piece, or collection of pieces, is a balance between exposing the materiality of clay and glaze and an object’s function or purpose. Helen wants to find the link to an objects material and design origins to how they are presented or perceived in our culture today.
Molten and cooled glazes form the surfaces of Helen’s ceramic works. Glazes fuse chemistry compositions. Surfaces reassemble like aquascapes and horizons, or places where scale and form are less perceptible. This gives way to an exploratory feel, stimulating sensory and mental states. Current works explore what a vase form is using slab ware hand building techniques and ever evolving surface treatments.
Recent commissions have included works for Aberdeen Standard Life, design collaboration with UK fashion designer Olivia Ruben and several media have featured my work including most recently; Channel 4’s Inside Out Homes, Etc Magazine and Landscape Magazine.
E: helenrebeccaceramics@gmail.com
www.helenrebeccadesigns.com