Ruth Weston: About Her Work

I have been doing ceramic sculpture for many years now. My art training includes two years of study in Florence Italy; where I studied art history. In addition to my art training, I have studied ceramic engineering and have been an engineer for 22 years before returning to the arts. My unique background has given me a strong sense of aesthetics as well as a good understanding of my material. I make my own glazes, which gives a unique beauty to my sculpture’s surface, its texture and its color. My work is not mass-produced with editions; each piece is unique.

I use stoneware clay which must be fired to a much higher temperature than the soft clays of the ancient artisan, and thus my figures are much more durable. But like the ancient artist, I use simple raw materials to color the clay surface before firing. I have developed my own glazes from raw oxides such as flint, nepholine syenite, and kaolin.
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