Webb Pottery Studio

In 2000, she relocated to Gulf Coast Alabama where she currently shares a studio with Lowell Webb, just outside of Magnolia Springs, AL.

She discovered the joy of working with clay in 1993 when she signed up for a pottery introduction class. Her connection with clay was immediate and she hasn’t looked back since. While mostly self-taught, Anne did do a short apprenticeship with the late Marilyn Farrell of King’s Landing, New Brunswick, in the spring of 1998, and has attended a number of workshops and conferences with such notable presenters as Richard Zakin, Ron Roy, Michael Sheba, John Leach, and Val Cushing, among others.

Anne makes both high-fired functional ware from native clay as well as one-of-a-kind art pottery, preferably working on the wheel, drawing design inspiration from the world around her, and is strongly influenced by the aesthetic and spirit of Asian and Celtic design, and the Art Nouveau Period.

She prefers to do work on the wheel
“Clean and graceful forms that you can achieve on the potter’s wheel, can stand on their own without adornment, and are a good foundation

for most any decoration, whether it be a simple glaze, free form brushwork, or carved design.”

“Pottery has a distinct human connection. It is a tradition strongly rooted throughout human history, transcending both cultural

and chronological lines. Revisiting works from the past is a celebration of our diversity, giving us a reference point as both artists and human beings.”

Anne has 2 young daughters (one of which is disabled) and finds there is a delicate balance when it comes to juggling potting full time and the daily demands of family life. “Every day is a new adventure!

Anne’s work can be found in collections across the United States, Canada, Japan, and Great Britain.

Lowell Webb

Working with clay  has been a love of Lowell’s since his childhood. He first discovered clay on his own when he was about 5, while playing near his family’s home in Fort Walton, Florida. When he was about 11, he happened to see a folk potter giving a throwing demonstration at a local shopping mall.

This really caught Lowell’s attention and focus, and he went home and fashioned
a crude kickwheel with “an old bicycle rim, some wood, some
brick, and whatever else I could find. That was my first wheel and that’s what I
first learned to throw on.”

After taking his first pottery class when he was 21, he met Florida potter
Charlie Brown, who really opened Lowell’s eyes to the raku firing process.
Later, Lowell attended Memphis Academy of Art and from there, transferred into
the sculpture program at Memphis State.

“I actually moved to southern Alabama in
the 1980’s because of the great native clay here, and also because this area has a rich pottery
tradition, Native American to the potteries of the last century.”

Since moving here he has taught at the Eastern Shore Art Center and has given
many people private lessons out of his studio in Silverhill, Al. He co-owned and operated Twinkleberry Pottery for a
number of years and collaboratively producing raku pottery and
stoneware pottery. In 2000 he relocated to his present location in Magnolia
Springs.

He is currently working on a body of work he calls “artificial artifacts”.
While tilling up his garden one day, a piece of an old saucer came up to the surface.
“That is how the whole thought process started. Where did this shard come from?
How old was it? Who used it? This old pottery shard had a story to tell, like any artifact.”

His “artificial artifacts” aren’t meant to be an imitation of actual ancient finds, merely reminiscent of them. These pieces provoke thought and distant memories of long lost cultures, as we envision the possibility of who might have made or used these weathered vessels and what hands they have passed through. These clay vessels leave us with the impression that they have a story to tell, even if it comes from within ourselves.