Helen PINCOMBE

View in collection Born in India and educated in Australia she came to Britain in 1925 and trained under William Staite Murray at the Royal College of Art, deputizing for him when the college moved to Ambleside during World War II. A teacher and keen exponent of hand building, Pincombe ran her own pottery for over 30 years eventually retiring in the 1970s. Her hand-building techniques included coiling, slab building and moulding inspired by world pottery and in turn influential on many later potters. For some years she had a workshop near Denise Wren at Oxshott, Surrey, where she fired in an updraught gas kiln. Later she lived near Cambridge where she ran classes and collected an extensive slide collection of world ceramics which she used in her teaching.

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• Dates: (1908-2004)