Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Karen Risby

Karen Risby is a ceramic artist based in rural Suffolk, England.

Risby obtained her degree in Ceramics at Camberwell College of Art, working and living in South London for many years before moving to Suffolk to set up her new ceramic studio.Her work is an extension of her love of drawing, exploring pattern and line using both brushwork and sgraffito, a process that involves scratching back into the painted surface.Risby takes inspiration from nature, myth and story telling.Birds are a prominent feature of her work, often interweaved with landscapes, people and places.

 Risby’s work is hand built and hand painted using porcelain slip, stains and oxides, she fires her work to stoneware.More of Karen Risby‘s ceramics can be found at https://www.karenrisby.co.uk/.