Betty Woodman obituary

Artist whose reinvention of the vessel helped raise ceramics into a significant art formThe ceramic artist Betty Woodman, who has died aged 87, was known for her highly original baroque forms and use of vivid colour. Her work was increasingly sculptural in her later career as she became absorbed by the relationship between structure, surface and colour in expressive hybrid objects and installations. “Painterly” would be an apt description of her fluent and opulent art, one that broug