Elizabeth Brickell

Elizabeth’s current practice uses hand built techniques in clay. She produces non functional sculptural vessels reflective of remnants of Past industrial activity around the coast and mountains of West Wales. She use oxides, engobes and stoneware glazes and each piece is fired several times to obtain the raw visual effect she seeks. She works with the clay in methods she uses to draw with paper which results in the clay being cut, torn, beaten and layered. 

Elizabeth completed a Fine Art BA (Hons) in 1983 specialising in Sculpture, and later worked as a technician in a Bronze Foundry near Bath were she developed a fascination for process and material combinations. In 2010 she obtained an MA in Fine Art at Swansea Met.  After moving to Wales in 1986, she worked as an Art Tutor for  Aberystwyth University Lifelong learning dept for many years and latterly, in Health & Social Care for Alzheimer's Society & Age Cymru Dyfed alongside continuing her own practice.