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
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Upcoming Events
Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft
March - June 2025
March 2025
Potfest by the Lake, Compton Verney
June 2025
Potfest in the Park, Hutton-in-the-Forest
July 2025
Other information
Miriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience.
Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk
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Email: miriam@blue-skies.org.uk
Podcast website: womenofsteel.co.uk
Instagram: @womenofsteelpod
Facebook: @womenofsteelpodcast
Production by Tim Jones: webmill.co.uk
Music by Brynovsky: brynovsky.co.uk
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