Elspeth Owen (b.1938)
Elspeth Owen was born in 1938. She studied at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and was training as a psychotherapist when she started making her sensitively handbuilt pots in the mid-seventies.
A member of the Women's Movement, and involved in the Cambridge Peace Collection which produced the anthology My Country is the Whole World (Pandora, 1984), she cites feminist art, politics, philosophy and literaure as the context in which she has developed. She has had residencies at the Verulamium Museum in St Albans and the Banff Center for Arts in Alberta, Canada. Since 1988 she has led special needs groups and workshops. |