Gail Ritchie is a not only an accomplished ceramic artist, she is also a ceramic instructor at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. She can take you from a beginner learning to hand build with clay and lead you to wonderful means of sculpting and creating incredible surface textures and decorations. Her pieces are meticulously crafted narrative ceramic teapots and sculpture. Each hand built in porcelain or stoneware clay and hand painted with underglazes and china paints. This beautiful
“marsh chair” 23”h x 10”w x 9”d is just one of many examples you will see at her website: