Mary Rogers on Pottery and Porcelain by Mary Rogers (HQ184)

Published 1979: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 152 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. Scarce! (HQ184)

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Presents information for potters who want to work with porcelain, together with a survey of all the porcelains used in the west, and explains the author's own methods, with photographs of her works

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2019
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Great ideas and has stood the test of time - still very inspiring despite some photos being in black and white which means using imagination to 'see' the colours.

Reviewed in the United States on 11 August 2021
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This book is a must have for anyone who is interested in handbuilding with porcelain or just working with porcelain in general. Mary Rogers is an amazing artist who honestly deserves more recognition than she gets in the ceramic art world. Her musings on the nature of making art and how inspired she is by the natural world are a joy to read. In addition, there are also detailed instructions on the making of hand-built porcelain vessels. And then there are pictures of her glorious, delicate work. She stopped making art rather early in her life. I wish she hadn't.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mary-Rogers-Pottery-Porcelain/dp/

Born in Belper, Derbyshire, she studied graphic design at Watford School (1945-47), calligraphy at St. Martin's School of Art in London (1947-49), and ceramics at the Loughborough School of Art (1960-64). She worked for several years as a calligrapher and graphic designer before establishing her own workshop in Loughborough. Initially she made chunky coiled stoneware pots resembling carved stones. By the 1970s she became excited by curling and crumpled forms and thought porcelain would be best suited to make these shapes and concentrated on small porcelain pinched bowls. She wrote "Mary Rogers on Pottery and Porcelain" in 1979. Her work is inspired by nature as she has kept natural history collections since her childhood. She retired from making ceramics in the 1990s.

https://ceramics-aberystwyth.com/potter/mary-rogers/