	Mollie WINTERBURN (USA) Dates: 1920-1996 In the 1950s, determined to become a potter, Winterburn dug her own clay and fired her pots in a bonfire with the help of the children at the school where she was teaching P.E. She eventually became a teacher and lecturer in ceramics and wrote two books, Handbuilt Pottery (1967) and Techniques in Handbuilding (1969). In 1979 she moved to mid-Wales where she had her own workshop. She was a long standing member of the Craft Potters Association. She worked in handbuilt stoneware shaping the vessels into organic, asymmetrical forms decorated with simple designs emphasising the structure.

Mollie WINTERBURN (USA)

Dates: 1920-1996

In the 1950s, determined to become a potter, Winterburn dug her own clay and fired her pots in a bonfire with the help of the children at the school where she was teaching P.E. She eventually became a teacher and lecturer in ceramics and wrote two books, Handbuilt Pottery (1967) and Techniques in Handbuilding (1969). In 1979 she moved to mid-Wales where she had her own workshop. She was a long standing member of the Craft Potters Association. She worked in handbuilt stoneware shaping the vessels into organic, asymmetrical forms decorated with simple designs emphasising the structure.