Ann Ruel
Little Street Pottery
Suffolk, Virginia
Email: anneruel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.annruelpottery.com
Artist Statement: The pottery that I have been creating over the last few years is all hand drawn. I choose my images from my own unique vision of the world around me- as I want to see it. I gravitate towards detail, drama, complexity and childhood innocence. I often distort my drawings and like to connect the images as I draw them around the piece. I choose my forms to compliment my imagery and forms which I can use as a canvas. Most of the work is done on porcelain and porcelain striped with stoneware. I like to throw although lately, I have also added hand built pieces to my collection. Once the images are bisqued onto the pieces, I begin the tedious process of glazing. In the spirit of childhood innocence, all my work is colored with various hand made and commercial glazes and brushed on like a paint by numbers or a coloring book.
