The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1902-04-04
AN ENGLISH GIRLS QUAINT
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MISS vUILLAMY WINNING FAME BY
MAKING 0ROTES0UE FIGURES
uf... 4-... IN POTTERY.

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MAKING oROTEsaUE FIGURES
| .H. IN POTTERY.
American girls have no monopoly
Of business success. Their English
cousins are their rivals and English
girls are winning fame and money in
many fields OF work.
One clever English girl artist has
blazed path for herself In the last
three years, has evolved a scheme 10
which art and business trot aimably
In double harness.
She is maker Of pottery, but OF
pottery unlike anything else 10 the
market. Her studio and the artistic
little shop which she has opened are
veritable goblin markets crowded
with bogies, weird, fascinating, in.
describable bogies. W
The grotcsque is the young artists
speciality. She tries pothing else and
she cannot tell you how her ridiculous
little demons and strange hybrid
creatures creep into her mind. She
''just sees things So" '
They have always come to her.
She can't remember time when she
didn't see them at every turn. 1fyou
have an eye for the grotesQue it meets
you at every turn, SO she says. Even
when she was little tot she saw the
spooks and tried to make them in
wax.
The thought Of a childhood given
over to sucll Imagination will waken
TO pity any one who has seen the jugs
; and Jars and trays and panels, but
she says she was Jolly little young
, ster In large family.
) I'VE all went In for exaggerations,' .
: che says laughingly. Zone sister is Q
: high church nun. One Is low church
Chinese missionary. One Is a gymna
+ sium teacher, and L" she waved bel
hand at her bogies. s, .,,s,
8 When Miss Vuillamy was Studying
s art at Alexandria House she spent
0 spare hours 10 modelling her weird
: fancies 10 gesso. The Queen and
other visitors noticed the freakistl
creations, bought them, asked for
more and encouraged by this the girl
decided to devote her whole time TO
the original work that she loved.
Some ancestor Of hers must have
carved gargoyles and other medieval
monstr0sities and handed his skill as
a creator Of mythical animals down
to this slim girl descendant, for there
3 IL a touch OF the medieval about her
work. 1t hints at Notre Dame mon.
r sters and carved choir stalls In old
:. English cathedrals, and grinning gar
goylcs on Italian palaces. eft
The artist works In q mixture 0l
clay and wax, using the most aston
ishinp things for foundations, shells
). homes, rocks, old pieces Of china, any
y thing and everything whose shape il
weirdly suggested to her eye. 'fgi5
" II get some Of my best ideas from
f bones," she says. "You can't thiuI
what curious likenesses to livinl
a things one sees In bones" at tHr
'e The head OF the dissecting depart
ment at the Zoo is friend OF the ar
4, tist and there she obtains many o
!, her most curious models and ideas
= The sea furnishes her with all sorts Q
treasure tr0ve and almost all OF he
y goblins' heads are moulded on shells
9 The mouth Of a shell invariabl
suggests the mouth Of some Quee
"a monster, and the mouth, 50 Nil
IA Vuillalny insists, is the keynote OF
" grotesque creature. She keeps a b
cabinet full Of these embryonic go
lins, all Of them to be worked In
pottery some day, and from any OF
OF the misshspen hits Of material s.
can sketch out . nightmare creatuI
Around her rooms 60 endless pI
ry cessions Of uncanny demons, hobgo
lins, beasts and birds, some Of the
kor frightful, some deliciously funny,
cleverly imagined and modelled.
,ry Rut the names the artist has Civ
AZ. TO her creatures would win favor I
them, even were they lest interestll
in themsalyes- Evidently the
- maker has travelled with Alice
-, Wonderland aud brought back not
w Of beasts that Aiice forgot to me
? ton. hut lit.iH t.i - scI
'ys There are the Poggs. They q
Isl queer beasts, part toad, part bat.
7. - Jug or jar.
eo' They couldn't, BY any chance
any thing but Poegs One feels 8
md ntness OF the name the moment On'
ere eyes rests upon them.
me The Poggs are not al alike Th
ur. have . family resemblance, but th
wary greatly and q Smiley Pogg y
40. 10y TO any-behol6es, sueh 90 idiot
NJ |iovlai, absurd, delightful boyle.
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