Ann Baker

Ann Baker

Jackson, MS

Clay / Ceramics

Guild member since 1993

The emotions that shape Ann’s pottery are influenced by the southwestern deserts and an appreciation of Asian art. The shapes she creates with clay are directly influenced by her experiences while living on a desert in southern Utah, where the earth shoots up into a very dramatic formation outlined by space. Her work includes both hand built and wheel thrown pieces made with stoneware clay fired to cone 10 reduction. She makes, cleans, fires, and glazes each piece with glazes she developed to compliment her designs and shapes. Her glaze pallet ranges from subtle grays and blues to black. Both the desert and love of Asian pottery inspires the clean lines, the emphasis of negative space, the shapes, designs, and all over feel and emotion of her pottery.