When was clarice cliff working

The enthusiasm which greeted Bizarre generated a burst of creative activity. By Miss Cliff was supervising a workforce of up to at the Newport Pottery, with boys and girls trained in the decorating shop, producing new modern shapes and designs. Between and Miss Cliff became involved in an historic but short lived attempt to combine the forces of the Pottery and Glass Industries and contemporary artists.

Miss Cliff had misgivings and insisted the list be extended to include other artists with a more popular appeal, such as Laura Knight and Frank Brangwyn. Although most of the artists concerned merely decorated blanks, with which they were supplied, Laura Knight was able to design her own shapes, known as Circus.

The completed designs toured the country, having been shown first at the Harrods Exhibition of With the outbreak of war in , creative output of the factory ceased, with much of the workforce being drafted into the Armed Forces. Join ClariceCliff. Home About ClariceCliff. Copyright ClariceCliff.

Remember me. Forgotten your password? Clarice started work at the age of 13 in 'The Potteries'. The sunray, or sunburst, with its evocation of joy and nature, was a popular Deco motif, which featured everywhere from windows to hotel foyers. Cliff wisely took on this easily abstracted image and adapted it to bold effect, using enamel paint on earthenware. In the late s, Cliff also began placing emphasis on the shapes of her pottery, finding different ways to best display her designs.

From her triangular teacup handles to the distinctive conical form of her sugar casters, she looked again to Art Deco, and its fascination with the geometric rhetoric of Cubist art.

Cliff's ceramics, with their distinctive shapes and appealing, bright colours, brought modernity to the kitchen sink. In the s and s their popularity was revived, leading to worldwide collectability, and establishing Cliff as one of the key names of the Art Deco movement.

Although she continued to run and co-own the factory until , Clarice Cliff would never return to the creative work that had established her reputation. The collecting market for Clarice Cliff pottery is complex. Rare combinations of shape and pattern can bring tens of thousands of dollars and are highly coveted by collectors. The fame and success reached by Clarice Cliff is difficult to appreciate in the modern era, given the many informal barriers at the time that she was able to break through.

During and , articles were written about Cliff and her work in a variety of media outlets including magazines newspapers. Susie Cooper had fewer than 20 articles through the same period.

She continues to be celebrated as an ambitious working-class Staffordshire girl who brought modern art to the people. You must be logged in to post a comment. Home Latest Updates Forum Valuations. Your guide to antique pottery marks, porcelain marks and china marks. The Life and Work of Clarice Cliff From humble beginnings, Clarice Cliff flourished to become one of the most influential ceramic artists of the 20th Century.

English Bone China Though the British Isles have a long history of producing ceramic wares, the fine white ceramics we now associate with England were not developed until the mid 18th century.

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