- LINDA PARK
- IAN DARLING
- FIONA MILLAR
- FIONA STRICKLAND
- FRANCES BELL
- LUCY PARSONS
- PHYLLIDA MEACHAM
- ROB HAIN
- DAVID HAY
- SUSAN MITCHELL
- ANGELA HUNTER
- MARCUS HODGE
- CLAIRE BEATTIE
- SANDRA VICK
- BARBARA FRANC
- SAM MACDONALD
- PENELOPE ANSTICE
- CHRIS ROSE
- HELEN KEMP
- PATRICIA SADLER
- HAZEL VELLACOTT
- MATT CURTIS
- HELEN FAY
- JEAN FEENEY
- MICHAEL DIX
- HENRIETTA LAWSON JOHNSTON
- GRAHAM MUIR
- CHRISTOPHER PALMER
- ANNE SKINNER
HELEN KEMP
Helen's wonderfully unique ceramics, featuring items of homeware transformed by her trademark figures, have made her a well-known and popular Borders artist. Inspired by Victorian Staffordshire ceramics and Mexican and North American folk art, Helen's figures have a whimsical and dreamlike quality in their facial expressions and body language and there is quite simply nothing else like them in the world of contemporary ceramics. All her work is hand-modelled in earthenware clay with underglaze decoration and transparent matt and satin glazes.
Helen studied ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art and went on to further study at Glasgow School of Art. Helen's work is well represented in galleries throughout the UK including The Open Eye in Edinburgh, The Biscuit Factory in Newcastle, Iona House Gallery in Oxfordshire, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Gallery Q in Dundee and The Flat Cat in Lauder. She has held recent solo exhibitions with The Strathearn Gallery, Crieff, Twenty Twenty in Shropshire and Tweedale Museum, Peebles. Helen is happy to accept commissions for specific works.
This is a small example of Helen's work. Please get in touch if you would like to see more.