Ruby Cler was born in Sudbury Ontario Canada and continues to live in Canada. She started turning as a hobby in the late 70’s. Realising she enjoyed it, she used her vacation time to take classes with such people as Allan Batty, Stuart Mortimer, David Springett, Jean Francois Escoulen, Alain Mailland, Jean Claude Charpignon and a host of other people.
Today Ruby is still open to learning new things. After 36 years of teaching school, she began turning full time and continues to do so. A couple of years ago she was thrilled to be accepted on to the roll of the Register of Professional Turners.
When she taught school, Ruby painted a banner that hung across the front of her classroom. It read, “There is nothing you can’t do, only things you haven’t learned.” She still livesby that philosophy and thinks it sums her up as a person.