Show Notes
Ruth Elizabeth Jones is a ceramic artist based in Scotland and her creative practice centres on the vessel form. She builds clay vessels using coil-building techniques dating back to matriarchal Neolithic pottery cultures, and her work makes ongoing reference to the female ceramic record. She is currently developing large sculptural vessels, which balance inner volume and outer form, and look to achieve the stillness of a quiet holding or containing space. Her approach to clay focuses on its materiality; she explores its possibilities and resistances. Her intention is that the meditative focus of making, the union of energy and calm, is somehow retained in the work. Her vessels are smoke-fired with sustainably sourced wood shavings, and as a result they acquire rich and varied surfaces, suggestive of light and dark. Ruth’s affinity with clay has been lifelong. After studying in the Midlands in the 1980s, she established studios firstly in Derby and then in rural Southwest Scotland where she continues to live and work.
You can follow Ruth on: Website: ruthelizabethjones.com Facebook: @ruthelizabethjonesceramics Instagram: @ruth_elizabeth_jones Sign Up for Ruth’s newsletter to hear about upcoming exhibitions and events.
Upcoming Events Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft March - June 2025 York Ceramics Fair March 2025 Potfest by the Lake, Compton Verney June 2025 Potfest in the Park, Hutton-in-the-Forest July 2025
Other information The Great Pottery Throwdown
Miriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience. Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk Facebook: Miriam Grace Therapist Blue Skies Instagram: @MiriamGraceBlueSkies Email: [email protected]
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