School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Helen Pincombe

Born: 1908, India   Died: 2004

Ceramicist. 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

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Bowl] C1079 Ceramics

[Plate] C1078 Ceramics




 
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