Love and companionship are the expressions of joy in HELEN MARTINO’s ceramic sculpture. By cutting and moulding stoneware clay sheets, she creates figures nestling into their surroundings with expressive hands and feet, relaxed and amiable, their features painted with delicacy and precision. From an earlier career as a functional potter, Helen turned towards her current genre of narrative sculpture after being inspired by John Maltby’s slab-building courses at Aberystwyth University.