Ann Wrightson

by **NaomiM** November 23rd 2014, 7:52 pm

Ann Wrightson
Routh Lane Pottery, and Wigmore Pottery
1958- Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire
1972- Caversham, Reading, Berkshire
1991- Wigmore, Herefordshire
1999- Leominster, Herefordshire

by **NaomiM** January 31st 2015, 2:01 pm

by **NaomiM** August 10th 2015, 10:00 pm

Sheep and lamb

by **NaomiM** August 10th 2015, 10:04 pm

Sheep

by **NaomiM** March 29th 2018, 2:11 am

Bird jug

by JudyB October 3rd 2020, 10:26 pm

Hi

Just wondered if anyone had seen this style of work before. Beautiful Dove design but cannot make out potters mark. Thanks

by JudyB October 3rd 2020, 11:06 pm

Unmarked

by **NaomiM** October 4th 2020, 12:29 am

By my favourite potter, Ann Wrightson. She doesn’t always mark her work

by JudyB October 4th 2020, 6:26 am

Hi Naomi

Thankyou!! I did think it was Anne Wrightson but not seeing a mark left me wondering.
Judy
Thankyou

by JudyB October 4th 2020, 2:26 pm

Hi Naomi

Just wondered if you knew anything about Ann Wrightson, would love to know more about her.

Thanks Judy

by **NaomiM** October 4th 2020, 3:13 pm

I don’t know much about her; I think she’s retired now. Address is
Ann Wrightson Pottery
Leominster
Herefordshire
HR6 9UJ
She was active in Herefordshire in the 1990s, and based near Reading before that (from 1958). Exhibited in Ludlow food and crafts festival in the early 2000s
And a travelling Made in the Middle exhibition in 1995

by **benwilliams** January 16th 2021, 4:13 pm

Pretty well made studio plate, interesting raised painting decoration.
No mark . Any ideas?

by **NaomiM** January 16th 2021, 4:27 pm

By one of my favourite potters, Ann Wrightson.

by **benwilliams** January 16th 2021, 4:43 pm

Well done, you are so good. I had a quick look and I love her animals and bird figurines.

by **NaomiM** April 15th 2022, 11:23 pm

Very nice elephant by Ann Wrightson

by **NaomiM** July 3rd 2022, 1:20 am

by **NaomiM** July 3rd 2022, 5:24 pm

by Annalucas15 January 24th 2023, 5:13 pm

I came across this forum and saw that a number of people mentioned Ann Wrightson and were asking about her. She was my aunt and sadly died 31 December 2021, having been retired for a few years. I am lucky enough to have a lot of her work and I was very pleased to see how much she is appreciated by others.

by **NaomiM** January 24th 2023, 5:20 pm

Welcome to the forum Most Excellent

. She's one of my favourite potters; I love her work

by Annalucas15 January 24th 2023, 8:54 pm

She was very talented - obviously I am biased as well as being a proud niece to my late aunt.

by Miacat.0 January 28th 2023, 10:50 pm

Im new to the forum too. I live in Herefordshire, my best friend used to live up the road from Ann. I have long admired her work, but was renovating a house when I last saw her work for sale at Ludlow food festival years ago and couldn’t afford to buy anything.
I’ve recently found two pieces of her work in a charity shop, a beautiful plate with a fish and bird design and a water vessel (although it is labelled in pencil underneath as a rumtopf) with fish on. Both are unfortunately damaged. The plate more so than when I bought it, as my son knocked it out of my hand while giving me a hug on the first night I had it, it was difficult not to be cross, I was very sad!! Anyway, I’ll stick it back together and enjoy it as it is. I’ll post pictures when I’ve repaired it.

by **hercules brabazon** January 31st 2023, 1:27 pm

I found a potted biography of her in a Suffolk Crafts Society book; undated sadly but no later than 1983. She then had a pottery in North Street, Steeple Bumpstead near Haverhill. It reads

"Ann Wrightson grew up in Berkshire and after leaving school she was apprenticed to a potter for two years before going on to train at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s. Soon after this she established her own workshop in Reading where she worked for a number of years before moving to her present workshop in Steeple Bumpstead in 1977"