Training:
2002-2003 Apprenticeship with studio potter Edmund de Waal.
1998-2001 BA Design and Applied Arts, Edinburgh College of Art, 1st Class Hons.
1997-1998 Foundation studies in Art and Design, Liverpool Art School, Distinction

Awards:
2007 Evening Standard Homes and Property award for best domestic design
2006 UK Trade and Investment award for export, finalist
2005 Crafts Council Development Award
2004 Design for Skandinavia, shortlisted award, UK Trade and Investment
2003 Winston Churchill Memorial Travel Fellowship, awarded a grant for international study of ceramics
2002 Sidney Myer International Ceramic Awards, Victoria Australia: shortlisted
2001 Andrew Grant bequest, Scholarship for post graduate studies, Edinburgh College of Art
2001 Helen A. Rose bequest for distinctive work, Edinburgh College of Art

Membership:
2007 Selected maker, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2007 Member and Resident Artist, Craft Central, London

Collections:
2008 Brighton and Hove Museums Trust
2008 Edinburgh Museums and Galleries, Scotland (51 piece installation)
2006 London Southwark council, purchased for their permanent collection
2006 Broughton gallery, Biggar, Scotland
2003 Donna Karan, New York
2003 Egg, London
2002 Wigglesworth Architects, London
2001 Betty Davies, Scottish fashion international, Edinburgh

Helen Beard has exhibited in numerous exhibitions both national and international. Forthcoming exhibitions include Collect at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and SOFA New York, represented by Joanna Bird Pottery

Statement:
Working with a Limoges porcelain I throw a simple white ceramic form, onto which I put a drawing. The technique for drawing is my own researched method of relief print and colour wash. The result is an image like watercolour and ink.

Each individual pot has an illustration, a scene from the way we live. I follow themes that are often nostalgic or even slightly old fashioned. The pots tell a story, sometimes quirky, and sometimes with touch of humour about British way of life.