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Following the closure of the De Morgan Centre, London, in the summer of 2014, the Watts Gallery and the De Morgan Foundation, a registered charity [8] preserving the work of William De Morgan and Evelyn De Morgan, entered into a collaboration which saw the opening of a long term exhibition in the Richard Jeffries Gallery in the main gallery building. [9]
Watts worked on the painting for a further five years, and the completed version was exhibited for the first time at the New Gallery in 1891. Between 1902 and 1906 the painting was exhibited around the United Kingdom, and it is now in the collection of the Watts Gallery in Compton , Surrey.
Richard Jefferies agreed to sit for Jon Edgar for a portrait using local Compton clay quarried from the foundations of the Brickfields pottery of Mary Wondrausch.The portrait was unveiled at the re-opening of the Watts Gallery in June 2011 and forms part of the Compton Triptych [2] unveiled at The Human Clay exhibition, Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey in November 2011.
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (19 July 1901 – 8 January 1987), known simply as Wilfrid Blunt, was an English art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959 until 1983.
During the execution of the Watts Mortuary Chapel, Watts trained workers in clay modelling, an initiative that eventually led to the establishment of the Compton Potters' Guild in 1899. [10] She was a firm believer in the idea that anyone given the opportunity could produce things of beauty and that everyone should have a craft within which ...
Current notable members include artist Chila Kumari Burman, [43] Jane Cox, a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and Chair of the Outreach Committee of the Art Workers Guild (who run projects across various institutions such as the V&A, Courtauld Institute, Watts Gallery and Imperial College London) [44] and Fleur Oates, a lacemaker and ...
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Toolstation was formed in February 2003 by Mark Goddard-Watts, one of the founding family members of Screwfix Direct. [3] In 2012 Goddard-Watts sold his shares to Travis Perkins plc. [4] [5] [6] A distribution centre in Middleton, Greater Manchester opened in August 2018. [7] In 2019 Toolstation opened their 400th store, in Balham. [8]