Helen Rebecca Ceramics

Studio Ceramics and Design

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 searches for the material origins of objects and explores how they are presented and perceived in our culture today.

Molten and cooled glazes form the surfaces of Helen’s pieces. Glaze fused, chemistry compositions cascade and reassemble as aquascapes and horizons, places where scale and form are less perceptible. This gives way to an exploratory feel, both sensory and mental. Current works explore what a vase form is using slip casting, slab ware hand building techniques and ever evolving glazed surfaces.

Helen produces her designs, by hand, in her studio where several moulds are set up. Working in clay is an absorbing process. It is a slow moving material that inspires patience and delicacy. The processes Helen uses are slip casting from plaster moulds and hand building with stoneware clay slabs. The glazes are applied by dipping and painting. Some glazes are layered onto others to create unique results.

All pieces are dishwasher, frost and microwave proof but prefer to be washed by hand. For large orders, please contact via the 'ask seller a question' button