Elspeth Owen’s practice is focused on the tactile qualities of clay and the process of making, and her works are created using the simplest of methods, typically pinched and hollowed from a ball of clay and fired at low temperature. Her slip treated ceramics are often smoke fired in a considerable range of colours, and her surfaces retain traces of the artist’s hand at work on the clay.
Elspeth Owen’s ceramics are found in museum collections all over the world and are all made in her studio, a former cricket pavilion in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire UK.
Public Collections include: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. University of Wales at Aberystwyth. Kunstmuseum, Hamburg, Germany. Leeds City Art Gallery. Cleveland Studio Pottery Collection. Bolton City Art Gallery. Buckinghamshire Museum. Hawkes Bay Museum New Zealand. Deidesheim Ceramics Museum Germany. Paisley Museum. Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Coloured bodies and slips. 13cm wide by 8cm tall. This piece was exhibited at Galerie Besson (remains of the label underneath).
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