Meet the Artist

Sandy Rousseau

Ceramics

Sandy Rousseau has loved getting muddy and forming clay since the days of mud pies and play-doh, a passion that has followed her relentlessly throughout her life. After learning wheel throwing and hand building in high school, she spent many years pursuing "respectable ambitions" before returning to her true calling. When her various career attempts proved fruitless, she looked back to the child who loved mud pies and discovered that the love for clay was still alive and well in the grown-up. Since then, she has grown in her art, drawing inspiration from her love of animals and nature, and the colors of the Southwest from her time in Southern California and Colorado. Her style reflects both youthful whimsy and introspective narratives.

Materials and tools used include: stoneware clay formed into hand-built whimsical sculptures and wheel-thrown functional works, decorated with a variety of underglazes and fired to cone 5, inspired by the nature of the western United States.