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Ruth Swanson
SUNSPOTS Pottery Studio
182464 Conc. 12 Normanby - RR 3
Ayton ON
N0G 1C0
519-665-2201
info@sunspotspottery.com
www.sunspotspottery.com
Ruth has been making a living as a full-time potter for 37 years. She
studied art at the University of Iowa and apprenticed at Three Tribes
Stoneware in North Dakota and at Gordon Pottery, Elora/Salem, ON. Since
1974 she has operated SUNSPOTS Pottery with Bill Mason producing a wide
range of functional stoneware fired to cone 10 reduction in a large oil-fired
kiln.
“ I have always been what you could call “devoted to function,”
i.e. I want my pots to be used rather than decorative, contemplated. It
occurs to me that it would be the ultimate honour to have an urn that
I had made chosen by someone to contain the ashes of their loved-one.
This is the thought that brought me to Grave Goods. “
Funerary and Keepsake Urns (sets of two)
Green / White
Blue
Oatmeal
Large $150 / small $50
wheel-thrown stoneware clay high-fired to cone 10 in a reduction
atmosphere.
There are certain practical considerations for a funerary urn. Stoneware
clay is particularly well suited, as it is completely water-proof
and unaffected by the caustic quality of ash. The urns that I have
made were designed with a lid that sheds water, should they be interred,
and with handles and a knob to wire the lid in place so that it
is secure. For those who wish to retain a small amount of ashes
separately, there are “keepsake urns” which accompany
each.
The most ornate of my urns, the green and white, was inspired by
a Sung Dynasty funerary urn in the collection of the Albright-Knox
Gallery in Buffalo, NY. |
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