Denise Brown is a ceramic artist working from her studio on the family farm in rural Fenland Cambridgeshire. Her work is inspired by rural landscape and isolated buildings. Although location is open to the viewers interpretation, there is a common theme of space and wild landscape. 

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Her handmade pieces are constructed using thinly rolled slab building techniques, and textures created through mark making with found items picked up around the farm. Discarded broken farm machinery parts found on the paths and from rummaging through the scrap heap in the farmyard, along with brushes from collected dried grasses and stubble from the fields are used to create marks and feed into the narrative of the work. 

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Pieces are left to fully dry before decorating with her coloured terra sigillata slips. This refined watery slip allows all the textures and marks to be retained. Work is bisque fired in an electric kiln and then further decoration applied using underglazes. Occasionally decals are added, made from her own pencil drawings.

 

Denise is a member of Anglian Potters, the Craft Potters Association and Peterborough Artists Open Studios.