Helen Ashley Designs is a label by Sydney artist and designer Helen Ashley. Illustrating in both porcelain and paint, Helen creates a quirky range of ceramics, art cards and prints. Helen hand paints and hand builds all her own work making moulds of fruit and vegetables that she then turns into useful colourful tableware. Rock melon bowls, cabbage leaf coleslaw dishes, pineapple toothbrush holders or pomegranate vases.
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Helen works exclusively with Australian made porcelain liking this tricky often temperamental clay as the nearest finished texture to fine paper. She then paints intricate illustrations onto it firing all her work in her own kiln, “Bertha”. Helen’s inspiration is her natural surroundings, collecting plants and natural found objects on her daily dog walks with what she affectionately calls her hairy daughters. Helen pushes the clay into leaves, shells or feathers creating unique one of a kind artworks.
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