Stella Rebecca Crofts (9 January 1898 – 1964) was a British artist who had a prolific career creating paintings, sculpture and pottery.
[1] Due to extended periods of ill-health as a child, Crofts was largely home-schooled before studying at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in central London from 1916 to 1922 and then spending a year at the Royal College of Art where she studied pottery and sculpture.
[2] In Paris, Crofts was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in 1925.
[1] She continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy and had a solo show at the Redfern Gallery in 1926 and also showed with the Women's International Art Club and became an elected associate of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.
[1] She modelled animal groups then glazed and fired them in her own kiln, using a variety of techniques, to create statuettes, reliefs and earthenware pieces.