Emma Bossons is a ceramic artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 and designer for Moorcroft

Moorcroft

Moorcroft is a British pottery manufacturer based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which was founded by William Moorcroft.-History:...

 Pottery

Pottery

Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery...

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Bossons’ childhood years were spent living on a dairy farm where she developed a keen interest in watercolour painting. Self taught with no formal art training, Bossons managed to exhibit her work in art exhibitions (including the British Society of Painters Exhibition in Yorkshire) around the country and won an award for watercolour painting.

Bossons’ career began as a paintress or ceramic painter at Mason’s Ironstone (a subsidiary of Wedgwood

Wedgwood

Wedgwood, strictly speaking Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, is a pottery firm owned by KPS Capital Partners, a private equity company based in New York City, USA. Wedgwood was founded on May 1, 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood and in 1987 merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood, an...

) in Hanley, Stoke on Trent

Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...

. This was as part of a £40 per week government training scheme and involved painting the company’s designs onto their pottery.

In 1996 Bossons moved to Moorcroft

Moorcroft

Moorcroft is a British pottery manufacturer based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which was founded by William Moorcroft.-History:...

again as a paintress. In 1998 Bossons was “promoted” to their Moorcroft Design Studio and became their youngest designer. Her first range for Moorcroft, Hepatica, was completed in 2000. Her following range, Queen's Choice, became Moorcroft's best seller for 2001.

Following advice from their bankers, Moorcroft insured Bossons for a widely publicised £1½ million. Moorcroft Chairman Hugh Edwards described Bossons as “a phenomenon who has helped us in a difficult economic environment” and admitted that Bossons’ designs were responsible for hefty 40% of the company’s £6 million annual sales. Some of her work has sold for more than £11,000 in the past.

External links

• International pottery success - BBC.co.uk