After working in music and book publishing and then as a teacher, in 1973 Elizabeth Raeburn began a full time course in studio pottery at Harrow School of Art. Whist there, she spent a brief but influential time as a production student in David Leach’s workshop. In 1975, she moved to Somerset establishing a pottery with Rodney Lawrence. Since 1981 she has concentrated on handbuilt Raku.

Elizabeth's work is represented on the British Craft Council Selected Index, and in many public and private collections at home and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include the Oxford Gallery, the Galerie für Keramik und Kalligraphie in Hamburg and the Dan Klein Gallery in London. In 1992/93 she won two prizes at an exhibition at the National Museum of History, Taipei, these two pieces being acquired by the museum. During 1997-98 she had work shown at Sotheby's Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative Arts and was commissioned by Harvard University for a presentation at the book launch of The Quest for Longitude. In 2003 she was one of four of David Leach's students whose work was included in his retrospective exhibition which toured the U.K. in 2003-4.

Above: Elizabeth Raeburn, Somerset