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Susan Parkinson (8 January 1925 - 15 October 2012) is best known as an English potter and for her work with the Arts Dyslexia Trust. She was born Susan Elizabeth Sanderson in Calcutta (Kolkata). Her father was a wine merchant with an interest in sport and natural history, while her mother was proficient in dress making and craft works. Susan and her elder sister Diana were brought to England and pursued their schooling at Maltman's Green School, Gerrard's Cross. Susan completed her education at the Royal College of Art, under Professor of Sculpture Frank Dobson and John Skeaping, winning Associateship, a fourth year scholarship and the RCA Life Drawing Prize, the first time this had ever been won by a Sculpture School student. == Richard Parkinson Ltd == After her marriage to Richard Parkinson (1927-1985) and a summer working for Harry Davis at the Crowan Pottery, Cornwall, Susan and Richard set up Richard Parkinson Ltd., generally referred to as the "Parkinson Pottery". In the stables and oast house of the home at Brabourne Lees, Kent, of Susan's sister and her husband Alick, Richard's primary role was to provide the physical and technical resources, the materials and the workshop facilities, to support Susan's creative talents in designing and decorating the company's distinctive pottery ware. Slipcasting in porcelain was the technique used to reproduce Susan's sculptures for a mass market. Output ranged from animals (including mice, cats, dogs, sheep, pigs, birds, fish and mythological creatures) to humans (including schoolchildren, judicial figures and classical busts) together with more practical tableware (throwing or moulding primarily by Richard). Highly stylised, distorted, flattened or elongated forms were finished with Susan's monochromatic graphic designs achieved with wax resist techniques, brown and later green-black pigments and gloss or matt glazes. At its peak, there were several assistants, production took place around the clock and Parkinson Pottery was being sold not only in British department stores such as Heal's, Liberty, and Dunns of Bromley but across the Atlantic in America. A series of models of contemporary actors designed and made for the Briglin Pottery featured on the 9/10/2011 broadcast of the Antiques Roadshow and can also be seen on the Victoria and Albert Museum web site. One of Susan's final pieces for the Pottery was a bust of Sir Winston Churchill who personally approved reproduction of the design. In the early 1960s, a combination of the tragic accidental death of the Parkinsons' talented young model maker and the extreme physical exhaustion involved in running the Pottery lead to financial difficulties and the break up of both the company and the marriage. Although some of the moulds were sold to George Gray at the Cinque Ports Pottery, an officer from HM Customs and Excise insisted on the destruction of stock and moulds in an adjacent field to ensure no further income could be made. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Parkinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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