Emma Baldwin – Oxfordshire Artweeks

494 Emma Baldwin

Region: Oxford East – City

Artform: Ceramics

Emma Baldwin is a ceramic artist based in Oxford, UK, specialising in wheel-thrown stoneware and porcelain vessels. Her work encompasses both functional and sculptural forms, drawing inspiration from contemporary and historical sources. She applies colour through glazing to accentuate shapes and explores the reactions triggered by overlapping glazes, working with slips, underglazes, and oxides to achieve reactive and textured surfaces.

Emma’s journey with ceramics began at the age of 14. She pursued her passion by studying ceramics at Bristol Polytechnic in 1992, where she was taught by renowned potters Walter Keeler and Mo Jupp. After a career in teaching and running an Art Foundation course at Abingdon and Witney College, she returned to full-time pottery, focusing primarily on wheel-thrown vessels.

Emma Baldwin was first introduced to clay at school aged 14 and she’s been working with it ever since.She studied BA Ceramics at Bristol Polytechnic in1989 – 1992, where I had the privilege to be taught by two truly inspiring potters, Walter Keeler and Mo Jupp.
After teaching and running an Art Foundation course at Abingdon and Witney College, Emma is now a full-time potter. She started off with hand-built forms working on the kitchen table before combining hand-built and wheel-thrown forms and now she mainly produces wheel-thrown vessels.She enjoys making both functional and sculptural forms. Her inspiration for form comes from both contemporary and historical sources. Emma applies colour through the glazing process to accentuate the shape but also to find expression within the reactions triggered by overlapping the glazes. She works with slips, underglazes, and oxides to achieve reactive and textured surfaces.