Pat Scull has been a working artist in the Raleigh NC area since 1990.  She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with a BFA in painting and explored many artistic processes until finally centering her work around sculpture and ceramics.   Her work combines stoneware (underglazed and glazed to cone 6 oxidation) with found recycled objects.   Most of her inspiration comes  from one or two of these recycled objects which are then integrated within a ceramic form.  Using wheel thrown and hand building skills, she glazes and fires the ceramic body and then attaches the object(s)  to complete the work.  She is also very interested in texture and color and has spent much time developing her own glazes.  In order to create a more dynamic palette, she uses a computer software program to work with glazes on an oxide level.  Her forms are organic and tactile as she uses devices such as talons, thorns, scales, antennae, and tongue-like protrusions to create delicate and unusual pieces.