about
about
I make unique, figurative ceramics.
I studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art & Crafts in London, where I grew up. I soon came to appreciate and become drawn to the rich tradition of story telling in ancient and folk pottery including Staffordshire flat-backs.
This interested me as an idea to achieve in my own work and to tell my own stories.
I now live by the sea where it meets the South Downs in East Sussex, England. This gentle and rare landscape is a source of ideas as are folklore and fairytales. My Spanish maternal grandmother was the village herbal healer and I have inherited her love of wildflowers. The feeling for and connection with the natural world is an important part of my subject matter. Gardeners, gardens, birds and the changing seasons are reoccurring themes.
Drawings and colours are the starting points for making work and I regularly refer to the many sketchbooks I keep.
Within the pottery process, I explore the earthenware figurative traditions. I especially like the possibilities of colours and glazes within this temperature range.
I have also explored making ceramic prints from my drawings and combining traditional methods with new technology.
All my work is hand made and hand decorated.
I sell directly through this website via the email address on the contact page and also my instagram account @belen.ceramics.
You can find out more about the pottery I have made over the years on my archive page.
