Robert FOURNIER

View in collection He was born in Wimbledon and excelled at art at school but did not pursue it as a career, instead he joined the library service. As a pacificist he refused National Service and served a prison sentence. He trained at the Central School of Art under Dora Billington (1945-1946) where he became a technical and teaching assistant. He established the Ducketts Wood Pottery in Hertfordshire in 1947 and made slipware, tin-glaze and mosaics. A year later he set up the pottery department at Goldsmiths College. He worked together with his wife Sheila Fournier whom he married in 1961, producing repetition tableware in stoneware, at London, Kent and eventually at Lacock (1971-1987). They set up the archive of the Craft Potters Association, which formed the basis of the Ceramic Archive at Aberystwyth. They also made a number of films with John Anderson, including: Creatures In Clay, David Leach and Raku, English Style. They have issued slides on pottery, both modern and ancient. Robert Fournier has written extensively on ceramics and has produced many books on the subject, including Ceramic Creations (1971), and Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery (1992).

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• Dates: (1915-2008)