Mary Wondrausch

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Mary Wondrausch, OBE (born December 17, 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 97807136281352 nd 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)

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References

  1. ↑ Brickfields : My Life at Brickfields As a Potter, Painter, Gardener, Writer and Cook (2004)ISBN 0-9548237-0-2
  2. ↑ OBE award in The Independent
  3. ↑ Mary Wondrausch pottery
  4. ↑ http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts/exhibitions%20and%20events/the_human_clay_jon_edgar.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/dead-magpie-12717 image on BBC archive
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