Helen Evans the Future of UK Ceramics
The traditional ceramics studio has seen some fundamental innovations in the past five years. Globalisation and the influence of social media, together with a new interest in ceramics, have broken down the barriers of where a studio can be established. But all this comes with a background of high prices for property in the UK and the closure of many traditional centres for making ceramics.
As technology expands the world’s ability to communicate, what happens to hand-crafted items, such as ceramics, that used to be sold at galleries and fairs?
Helen Evans is one person who has bucked the trend. Trained in the UK at Bath and then Central Saint Martins Colleges, while still running a studio in Tobago, it begs the question: how did she do it?
Describing her working life she commented, “It was difficult. I basically didn’t have any holidays for about six to seven years, although one can argue that my working trips to Tobago where I had to produce enough stock in
