JOYCE MORGAN (BRITISH MID 20TH CENTURY)
Flora
drypoint etching
22 x 12 cm,
together with eight further dry point etchings by the same hand
(8) (unframed)
Joyce Morgan paintress for Studio Pottery Chelsea, knowing David Rawnsley who was firstly involved in the film industry and worked on many films during the thirties and forties as an art director, including 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, They Flew Alone and In Which We Serve.
After the war, he moved to Paris and opened a pottery there. It was in Paris that he first met Joyce Morgan, who was working in the city as a fabric designer.
In London in 1952 David started up the Chelsea Pottery in Radnor Walk, SW3. It was styled an open studio. The pottery was run on a 'club' basis, as had been the Paris pottery. Members paid five guineas (£5.25) as an annual subscription and sixpence (2½p) an hour plus the same amount for a pound of clay. Lessons were held in the evenings for amateurs with Joyce Morgan as the main instructor.