Salt and Soda

Ruthanne Tudball and Jeremy Steward each have long standing careers in ceramics creating work that feels organic and holds an earthy authenticity. Jeremy wood fires and salt-glazes his work while Ruthanne is renowned for her soda glaze firing, the results for both are delightfully soft textures and finishes.

Jeremy is inspired by the soft fluidity of the materials themselves; clay on the wheel, slip and raw glaze. His work is decorated most often by impressing with deeply textured patterns into the freshly thrown forms, using bisque or wooden roulettes and stamps. Ruthanne has welcomed the way that sketching, and life drawing in particular, has trained her eye, helping her to developed her sense of forms which she has translated into her ceramic art. Assembled and manipulated, Ruthanne’s work captures the soft organic quality of clay and is all completed while still wet.