Mary Wondrausch
Mary Wondrausch OBE (born 17 December 1923, Chelsea) is an English artist, potter, historian and writer.[1] She trained as a potter at Farnham School of Art, latterly West Surrey College of Art and Design.
She is an honorary fellow of the Craft Potters' Association and has work in the V&A Museum collection. She was awarded the OBE for services to the Arts in 2000.[2] Her primary interest is continental peasant art. Originally training as a watercolor artist, she later became interested in ceramics and opened her own pottery workshop in 1974. Inspired by 17th-century English slipware and Eastern European designs, such influences have informed her own work. She is known for lettering and exuberant use of colour. [citation needed]
Her Brickfields pottery is in Compton, near Guildford, Surrey.[3]
Portrait of Wondrausch
Mary Wondrausch agreed to sit for Jon Edgar for a portrait work using clay quarried from the foundations of her house at Brickfields. This forms part of the Compton Triptych[4] unveiled at the Human Clay exhibition, University of Surrey in November 2011.
Works in public collections
Dead Magpie (1956) mixed media on board. Collection of Surrey County Council[5]
Selected writings
- Mary Wondrausch on Slipware (1986; second edition 2001; publisher; A&C Black - 1st ed. ISBN 978-0-7136-2813-5. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-7136-2813-8)
- Brickfields: My Life at Brickfields As a Potter, Painter, Gardener, Writer and Cook (2004; ISBN 0-9548237-0-2)
- Hartley, Dorothy Rosaman (1893–1985) by Mary Wondrausch; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Contributions to symposia
- POTTED CHAR Mary Wondrausch (p. 227-234) SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD AND COOKERY 1994 PROCEEDINGS: Studies in Foods and Dishes at Risk. Edited by Harlan Walker; 245 pages.(Acanthus)
- SPICE CONTAINERS AND SALT CONTAINERS Mary Wondrausch (p. 285-289) OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD AND COOKERY 1992 PROCEEDINGS Studies of Flavourings - Ancient and Modern. Edited by Harlan Walker; 294 pages.(Acanthus)
External links
- Reading University Museum of English Rural Life archive film (2006)
- National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts; Wondrausch film and audio interview listings
- RECORDING THE CRAFTS: CERAMICS: MARY WONDRAUSCH (1996) University of West of England, Producer: Mike Hughes BFI
References
- ^ Brickfields : My Life at Brickfields As a Potter, Painter, Gardener, Writer and Cook (2004)ISBN 0-9548237-0-2
- ^ OBE award in The Independent
- ^ Mary Wondrausch pottery
- ^ http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts/exhibitions%20and%20events/the_human_clay_jon_edgar.htm
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/dead-magpie-12717 image on BBC archive
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