Mary White (ceramicist and calligrapher)

She began to make more individual pieces and by the time she and her husband moved to Germany in 1980 she rarely made tableware.

[4] Before the move to Germany, White had occasionally exhibited calligraphy with the SSI and had used letters on bowls, mainly painted in lustres.

In the early 1980s White began to make organic forms in porcelain, partly hand built.

Ideas come from the layers of rock on the seashore, shells and waves rippling over the sand and colours in the sea and sky.

Under the influence of a master calligrapher, Villu Toots[5] from Estonia, she regained her enthusiasm for calligraphy and experimented with combining the two artforms.