A still life by Joyce Morgan

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Dimensions: 75cm by 56cm

Still Life by Joyce Morgan,
oil on canvass, framed, circa 1960

Chelsea Pottery was established in Radnor Walk, London SW3 in 1952 by David Rawnsley and his wife Mary. It was
run like a club where any potter could work and study pottery for an annual sub of 5 guineas and an hourly fee
of sixpence plus a further sixpence for a pound of clay. Joyce Morgan was the main instructor at their evening
classes for amateurs and her work is amongst the most sought after by collectors - she was originally working as
a fabric designer in Paris when she met David.

In 1959 the Rawnsleys left London and set up another pottery in the Bahamas – Joyce joined them there but didn’t
like the climate and came back to London after just 5 months. She returned to Radnor Walk and helped Brian
Hubbard run Chelsea Pottery for nearly 40 years more with various other potters and modelers.

They had a rich and famous clientele consisting of various leading actors and musicians and were hugely
successful for many years. Brian met The Beatles in a TV studio in the early 1960s and stayed in contact with
Paul McCartney who commissioned Chelsea to make Christmas mugs for him for many years afterwards.