A companion to TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF, creating a record of the life of the ceramic artist Clarice Cliff. Includes photographs taken by Cliff of her home Chetwynd and its garden, and previously unpublished extracts from her letters. Includes an A-Z directory of Cliff's floral designs and valuations on a variety of Clarice Cliff shapes.
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I discovered Clarice's pottery in 1979. In 1982 I founded the Clarice Cliff Collectors Club, as a good way to find people who shared my fascination in this (then) obscure designer.
I advertised in the Stoke paper and was amazed and delighted to find 30 of Clarice's original paintresses from 1927 to 1939. Suddenly Clarice the WOMAN was brought alive via their memories of her, and their work at her pottery.
By chance I was introduced to New York gallery owner Louis Meisel in 1984 - and 4 years later our book 'Bizarre Affair' was published by Abrams, New York, and then Thames & Hudson, London. It 'shook' the Clarice Cliff world, (is still in print) and led to my writing 5 further books.
If you want Clarice's story 'in a nutshell' read the 1996 'Taking Tea'; if you prefer a full chronology, 'Art of Bizarre' from 1999 is still the most up to date account. In 'Fantastic Flowers of' I listed her major floral patterns. In it I also published for the first time Clarice's own colour slides from the 1950s of her garden and her life at Chetwynd House with Colley Shorter, her mentor and the factory owner. To enjoy Clarice's most lavishly colourful ware and best shapes in large scale images, see 'The Best of..' from 2008.
My favourite Clarice Cliff book is the one with that simple title, written by Peter Wentworth-Shields and Kay Johnson in 1976, and privately published by L'Odeon, the leading Clarice Cliff stockist in London in the 1970s. Beautifully written, it introduced 1000s of us 'Cliffies' to her amazing work, and inspired me to find out more and more.
For an in-depth view of the world during Clarice's lifetime the biography by Lynn Knight (Bloomsbury) goes into great depth, and also tells the story from a woman's viewpoint.
Thirty years after buying my first piece of Clarice Cliff I am STILL learning about her, and we share this knowledge, and in-depth material not in any of my books, on the club's very active website: www.claricecliff.com.
I advertised in the Stoke paper and was amazed and delighted to find 30 of Clarice's original paintresses from 1927 to 1939. Suddenly Clarice the WOMAN was brought alive via their memories of her, and their work at her pottery.
By chance I was introduced to New York gallery owner Louis Meisel in 1984 - and 4 years later our book 'Bizarre Affair' was published by Abrams, New York, and then Thames & Hudson, London. It 'shook' the Clarice Cliff world, (is still in print) and led to my writing 5 further books.
If you want Clarice's story 'in a nutshell' read the 1996 'Taking Tea'; if you prefer a full chronology, 'Art of Bizarre' from 1999 is still the most up to date account. In 'Fantastic Flowers of' I listed her major floral patterns. In it I also published for the first time Clarice's own colour slides from the 1950s of her garden and her life at Chetwynd House with Colley Shorter, her mentor and the factory owner. To enjoy Clarice's most lavishly colourful ware and best shapes in large scale images, see 'The Best of..' from 2008.
My favourite Clarice Cliff book is the one with that simple title, written by Peter Wentworth-Shields and Kay Johnson in 1976, and privately published by L'Odeon, the leading Clarice Cliff stockist in London in the 1970s. Beautifully written, it introduced 1000s of us 'Cliffies' to her amazing work, and inspired me to find out more and more.
For an in-depth view of the world during Clarice's lifetime the biography by Lynn Knight (Bloomsbury) goes into great depth, and also tells the story from a woman's viewpoint.
Thirty years after buying my first piece of Clarice Cliff I am STILL learning about her, and we share this knowledge, and in-depth material not in any of my books, on the club's very active website: www.claricecliff.com.
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This review is from: Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff, A Celebration of Her Floral Designs (Hardcover)
If you are a collector of Clarice Cliff or 20th century ceramics, this resource can serve you well. Leonard Griffin, a Cliff expert, reviews Ms. Cliff's life and the flower theme in her work. This book is for collectors, one who finds interest in this remarkable artist who became the developer of the Bizarre line. Mr. Griffin's writings would also appeal to those who study the art deco periods.
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- Christie's Art Deco by Manson & Woods Christie's International Group; Christie in Back Matter
- Ceramics in America 2001 (Ceramics in America Annual) by Robert Hunter on page 61
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