SUSAN WILLIAMS-ELLIS

'Susan Williams-Ellis', the eldest daughter of Amabel Strachey and Clough Williams-Ellis, was born on 6 June 1918 in Guildford, Surrey, England. She is known for her pottery designs and the foundation and management of the company Portmeirion Pottery.

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Career

She studied Fine Art at Chelsea Polytechnic, where her tutors included Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland.
Williams-Ellis's brother Christopher (1923-1944), fell in action before Monte Cassino as an ensign in the Welsh Guards. He had joined up straight from King's College, Cambridge. His room mate at Cambridge was Euan Cooper-Willis, who subsequently married Susan. The couple had four children, and their son Robin Llywelyn is a much-admired Welsh language author.
Clough Williams-Ellis writes in the ''Architect Errant'' about his feelings: ''His (Christopher's) room mate in the Gibbs building there, Euan Cooper-Willis, subsequently married our elder daughter Susan. The armistice was thus a time of both pleasure and of almost unbearable pain. We soon had grandchildren to add to the pleasure. We decided that since we, Christopher's parents, were alive, we should try to be so properly, and to keep the wound to ourselves.''
In 1961 she created the company Portmeirion Pottery with her husband.

External links

★ Portmeirion Pottery company website

★ Portmeirion Village: article on pottery