Deborah HARDING

View in collection She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and later the Royal College of Art. As a child, she moved to Letchworth, Hertfordshire, in 1909 and set up a studio during the 1920s and 1930s, called the Wynd. She exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, sold through the Three Shields Gallery and had her work featured in The Studio magazine. She also showed pieces in the Paris Exhibition in 1934 and in the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition 'English Pottery Old and New' (1935). She continued her studio work until the Wynd was requisitioned at the outbreak of World War 2. After the war she concentrated on bringing up her family and renovating a house in Bygrave. She taught pottery at her children's school but made functional pottery herself only for friends and family. She made slip-decorated earthenware and stoneware with a distinct modernist tendency using pale colours and simple spiral markings.

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• Dates: b. 1903 - d. 1991