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. 


HELEN KEMP

BOY AND CAT PLATE

Ceramic

HELEN KEMP

CANDLEHOLDER GIRL

Ceramic

HELEN KEMP

BEAUTIFUL LADY

Ceramic