Ruthanne Tudball

an early piece with the seashell mark and high gloss soda glaze on Limoges porcelain...probably made around 2000

Found this at a gallery yesterday. Half price, but chipped & filled spout, and a bit big, so passed on it.

a small but perfectly formed mustard pot, 8cm tall

small dish just under 5" corner to corner

very sexy shape

not sure about this piece - i'm assuming it's British studio pottery, but the form and glaze look Asian?  Is it a kind of saltglaze perhaps?  Anyhoo, i don't recognise the potters mark either and it has a flower on the underside of the lid and inside the jar at the bottom.  Any help you can give or direct me to would be much appreciated. Ta.

Indubitably Ruthanne Tudball. You can't mistake that dancing style of hers.

Ruthanne Tudball teapot.

Ruthanne wrote:
My god! that's at least 25 years old!

it shows how Ruthanne has progressed as a potter in that time.
Spookily I was moving the teapot that I own when you were posting your pics

dantheman wrote:it shows how Ruthanne has progressed as a potter in that time.....

Indeed. She added that it was even older because she was "still making spouts the "normal" way",
But, even then, it had the beginnings of the twist to the clay that became her trademark.

This is Ruthannes original stamp used in the 1980's

         

Apparently those wall plates are also similarly decorated on the reverse.

All of my work is thrown, manipulated and assembled while freshly thrown on the wheel in an attempt to capture the soft organic quality of the clay and preserve that softness in the finished piece. Soda vapour glazing in a wood/gas-fired kiln emphasises the marks and rhythms of making. Nothing is hidden.

Manipulating soft clay on a revolving wheel and feeling the material respond to the merest touch is like setting out on an exciting journey for me.  The dialogue which goes on between the potter and the clay is carried on through the use of the pots.  You pour, eat, store, serve and drink from them, and sometimes you simply contemplate them.  I am inspired by the evolving landscape, the rhythms and creative forces of the earth and by the dance of the human body, all of which keep me thinking about the life in a pot made of clay.

We are inherently defined by what we do and what we potters do with clay identifies who we are.  I see my work as a potter as a way of life that celebrates the beauty of the world around me.

Born  1945 California, USA

Education
1987-89  Post Graduate Diploma in Ceramics, Goldsmiths’ College, London
1971-74  BA (Hons) English, Further Education Teaching Certificate

Awards
2008  Arts Council Grant to travel to China and attend the IAC conference
2007  Arts Council Grant to travel to S. Korea to work and demonstrate

Solo exhibitions
2009  Lantic Gallery, Tiverton, Devon
Centre de Creation de La Borne, France
Grapevine at Burnham Market, Norfolk, UK
2007  Grapevine Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
2006  Bettles Galelry, Ringwood, Hampshire
2005  Contemporary Ceramics, London

Selected recent exhibitions
2010  Oxford Ceramics Gallery May Exhibition and NewWorks.  
Contemporary Applied Art, Solo Focus Exhibition. July
“Teapots”, Makers Guild in Wales, at Craft in the Bay
“The Art of Ceramic Decoration”, Keramickcentrum Tiendschuur, NL
2009  “Cup”, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Devon, UK
“Salt of the Earth”, Salthouse 09, North Norfolk Exhibition Project,UK
2008  ‘Afresh’, Gallery Top, Derbyshire
‘Celebrating Salt and Soda’, Octagon Gallery, Whichford
‘Salt and Soda and Penland’, Rye Gallery, New York, USA
2006  Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Derbyshire
‘A Pinch of Salt’, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2005  ‘Krug oder Kanne’, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
2004  Third International Ceramics Biennial, Brasschaat, Belgium

Collections
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ceramics Collection, University of Wales, Aberstwyth
Adolf Egner Collection, Germany
Yingge County Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected publications
2009  Contemporary Ceramics, A Global Survey .Emmanuel Cooper.  
The Art of Ceramic Decoration, Artists Share their Secrets, Mels Boom, Uitgever Publisher, Netherlands
2004  ‘Making Marks. Discovering the Ceramic Surface’, by Robin Hopper

Here are a couple of early lidded pots,the larger is another good example of the progress Ruthanne has made in refining her pots whilst retaining the rugged,natural features which remind her of the rocky,mountainous area of her youth.

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Slightly crude wonky construction and firing.
Looks like an "H" with 2 ticks on the top.
Nearest in the book is Treston Holmes, but there's nothing on his website like this.

Yunomi from Hatfield Art in Clay

How many pieces do you have Dan?

last week I bought 6 tea bowls and have four or five  other pieces but have owned & then  sold dozens of her pots over the years.

 

I just love the spout on my new 6 inch jug