Esperanza Romero

Esperanza Romero lived in London for 14 years where she trained at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Support from the Crafts Council helped her to set up at 401½ Studios in South London. She recently returned to live in Granada, Southern Spain. Initial problems in supply of raw materials and the arrival of a first child - Luna, put a temporary break on her work. However she is now back in the studio preparing for her solo exhibition at the Sue Williams Gallery in November, apart from working on private commissions (currently including a large ceramic mural), and other gallery commitments. The work continues to deal principally with the distortion of volume and the related surface decoration. She is concentrating on larger pieces in limited editions, requiring changes in the making process involving hand-building and press-rnoulding.
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Esperanza Romero. Sue Williams Gallery.
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A STRIKING EXHIBITION IN OCTOBER, 1992, At the Dutch ceramics gallery, Kunst and Keramiek in Deventer, introduced the ceramics of Esperanza Romero from Spain .Only a few collectors who have been able to follow her know that the star of Esperanza Romero did not suddenly appear out of the blue. Born in Spain, she moved to England when she was 17 and settled in London where she obtained her BA (ceramics) at Camberwell, then an MA at the Royal College of Art. Her work started to appear in group exhibitions in London and in 1988 she was selected for Sotheby's Decorative Art Award Exhibition. Frorm then on, personal exhibitions once a year consolidated Esperanza Romero as a rising ceramic artist. Sorne critics liken her cerarnic art to that of Picasso, Bracque and Miro who produced their farmous so-called 'painter-cerarmics' in southern France in the '50s.
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Esperanza Romero "Bridging the Gap between the Tangible and Dreams," an exhibition of ceramics by Esperanza Romero, was featured recently at Kunst & Keramiek Galerie in Deventer, Netherlands. Whether working on a large-scale mural or smaller-scale vessels, Romero prefers to express "those feelings (so often forgotten in the modern age) of humor, sensuality or the ridiculous. Looking through my own personal prism, clumsiness can be a perfect movement, the mundane transformed to the divine. I try to create space for the odd one out, to be able to appreciate the quirky, the rejected. Some of Romero's forms are coil built; others are cast or press molded, but several molds may be required in order to make a single piece.
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Earthenware vessels by Spanish artist Esperanza Romero were on view recently at Loes & Reinier in Deventer, The Netherlands. Her current emphasis is on one-of-a-kind handbuilt vessels decorated with figurative imagery.
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Esperanza Romero, ceramista de origen malagueño, formada en Inglaterra, expone en Granada (Galería Puerto) su último trabajo, inspirado en el mundo mágico de las ánforas y vasijas sumergidas.
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Esperanza Romero