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Betty BLANDINO (1927-2011) is born in London in 1927. She studied painting and pottery at Goldsmiths College, London. Between 1973 and 1988 she lived in Wales before moving to Oxford. She used the hand building techniques of coiling and pinching to create thin walled sculptural vessels. The exterior of the vessels were sometimes brushed with oxides and slips but often left unglazed. She is the author of a number of books including “Coiled Pottery, Traditional and Contemporary Ways”, A&C Black (1985, 2003), and “The Figure in Fired Clay” (2001) (Text Aberystwyth University).
Images: vase (source Kunst und Design-Auktionen, Krefeld 2023); vase (source Invaluable); vase (source Kunst und Design-Auktionen, Krefeld 2023).
Potter known for her asymmetric, sculptural forms who played a central role in the renaissance of handbuilding in the 1970s and 1980s (The Times).
