Ellen Spijkstra (born 3 August 1957) is a Dutch ceramic artist and photographer, resident in Curaçao.

In 1985–1986 she took a summer course in glassblowing at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area, followed by theory courses in clay and glaze studies and kiln construction as part of the Master of Fine Arts Ceramics program.

[5] She creates ceramic pieces on a variety of scales, ranging from small to monumental, and prefers to work on series.

[6] Spijkstra has taught at, among others, the Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao,[7] the Ateliers '89 in Aruba[8] and the Taller Escuela Arte Fuego in Caracas.

As an artist-in-residence she worked at the Taller Varadero in Cuba (seventh Havana Biennale),[9] the Resen International Ceramic Colony in Resen and the Shangyu Celadon Modern International Ceramic Center in Shangyu, China.