	Sheila FOURNIER Dates: 1930- She trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths College (1949-1950). She married Robert Fournier (1961) from whom she initially learned ceramics. They worked together producing repetition tableware in London, Kent and eventually at Lacock (1971-1987) but Sheila Fournier also produced individual pieces mainly in oxidised stoneware and porcelain. Jointly they have made a number of films with John Anderson, including: Creatures In Clay, David Leach and Raku, English Style. They have completed several literary ventures and issued slides on pottery, both modern and ancient. She is known for her more delicate porcelain pieces with shapes and decorative motifs reminiscent of Art Nouveau. There are also handbuilt stoneware bowls that suggest an organic origin with layered petal-like forms. She retired from potting in 1987 but continued to write in conjunction with her husband, Robert. They set up the archive of the Craft Potters Association, which formed the basis of the Ceramic Archive at Aberystwyth.

Sheila FOURNIER

Dates: 1930-

She trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths College (1949-1950). She married Robert Fournier (1961) from whom she initially learned ceramics. They worked together producing repetition tableware in London, Kent and eventually at Lacock (1971-1987) but Sheila Fournier also produced individual pieces mainly in oxidised stoneware and porcelain. Jointly they have made a number of films with John Anderson, including: Creatures In Clay, David Leach and Raku, English Style. They have completed several literary ventures and issued slides on pottery, both modern and ancient. She is known for her more delicate porcelain pieces with shapes and decorative motifs reminiscent of Art Nouveau. There are also handbuilt stoneware bowls that suggest an organic origin with layered petal-like forms.

She retired from potting in 1987 but continued to write in conjunction with her husband, Robert. They set up the archive of the Craft Potters Association, which formed the basis of the Ceramic Archive at Aberystwyth.