Ursula Mommens
Ursula Mommens | |
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| Born | Ursula Frances Elinor Darwin 20 August 1908 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 30 January 2010 (aged 101) |
| Education | Royal College of Art |
| Known for | Pottery |
| Spouse(s) | Julian Trevelyan Norman Mommens |
Ursula Frances Elinor Mommens (née Darwin, formerly Trevelyan; 20 August 1908 – 30 January 2010)[1][2] was an English potter. Mommens studied at the Royal College of Art, under William Staite Murray, and later worked with Michael Cardew at Winchcombe Pottery and Wenford Bridge Pottery.[3]
Born in Cambridge[2] and raised in Downe (then in Kent, now in Bromley), she was the daughter of Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. Her brother was Sir Robert Vere Darwin. She was the great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin and the great-great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.[4]
She married first Julian Trevelyan; their son is the film-maker Philip Trevelyan. Her second husband was Norman Mommens.
Mommens lived and worked in South Heighton, East Sussex,[1] making both wood and gas-fired functional stoneware using a clay body she developed herself with ash glazes.[5] She lived to the age of 101.
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- 1908 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century English women artists
- 21st-century English women artists
- Alumni of the Royal College of Art
- Artists from Cambridge
- Artists from the London Borough of Bromley
- English potters
- English women ceramicists
- Darwin–Wedgwood family
- People from Downe
- People from Lewes District
- English women centenarians
- British women potters