Karen Risby Jewellery April 24, 2025 – Posted in: Artists

Karen Risby creates contemporary ceramic sculpture, wall hangings and porcelain accessories.

Karen’s 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. She takes from nature, myth and story telling; birds are a prominent feature of her work interwoven with landscapes, people and places. Karen’s work is hand built and hand painted using porcelain slip, stains and oxides, she fires her work to stoneware

Originally from London, Karen graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 1994 then lived and worked in South London for many years before moving to Suffolk to set up her new ceramic studio in 2010.