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 Susan Williams-Ellis Receives an Honorary FellowshipOn Tuesday 3 May, Susan Williams-Ellis received an honorary fellowship from University of Arts, London. Rector, Sir Michael Bichard and University Registrar Susan Asser, visited Susan at Portmeirion Village to bestow the honour on Susan in person. The event took place during an informal ceremony held in the Tudor Room in the village hall. Susan had attended Chelsea School of Art during the 1930's, which now forms part of University of Arts (inaugurated in 2004) where she was taught by the great Modernists, Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore. On receiving the award,Susan said: "I was very flattered when I found out that I was to receive an honorary fellowship from University of Arts, London, and even more so when the Rector agreed to come all the way to see me at Portmeirion in North Wales to re-create the ceremony that will be held in my absence in London later this month. I decided to pursue pottery, rather than painting, mainly because I wanted to create affordable and beautiful things. I wanted people to buy my work purely because they liked it, and that it had a function, rather than buying things just as an investment, so its ironic I suppose that my work from the 60's is now considered so "collectable". I am frightfully lucky. When I went to Chelsea before the War, I studied under the sculptor Henry Moore and the painter Graham Sutherland. Twice a week I would be in a class with these icons of modern British art - what a wonderful chance to have, and now I am being given an honorary fellowship from University of Arts, London of which Chelsea forms part, its all come rather full circle hasn't it? Being in Stoke has also been a wonderful part of my life. The people of Stoke are really the nicest people one could ever meet, and their hard work has established Portmeirion and enabled us to sell our pots around the world. I have been very fortunate."
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