FANTASTIC FLOWERS OF CLARIC CLIFF

by Leonard Griffin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $4.09

  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 Includes photographs taken by Cliff of her home Chetwynd and its garden, and previously unpublished extracts from her letters.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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.25

  Clarice Cliff's Bizarre ceramics, with their spectacular colors and innovative Art Deco shapes, are avidly collected. Here, expert Leonard Griffin explores Cliff's lifelong passion for flowers and shows how many of her most popular designs were inspired by that love.When Cliff (1899-1972) married in 1940, she moved to an Arts and Crafts home in the English countryside with a five-acre garden. There, she learned how to grow the flowers her Bizarre girls had been painting on her pottery. Her delight in gardening is revealed here in never-before-published extracts from Cliff's personal letters, and in her own gorgeous photographs of her garden, reproduced from the original transparencies for the first time.A wealth of colorplates display Cliff's vibrant works. With a glossary and directory of floral designs, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the private world of one of the 20th century's most important ceramic artists.