Susan Williams-Ellis

**Susan Caroline Williams-Ellis** (6 ga Yuni 1918 - 26 ga Nuwamba 2007) ƙwararriyar mai zane ce ta ƙasar Birtaniya, wacce aka fi sani da haɗin gwiwar kafa Portmeirion Pottery . Ita ce babbar 'yar Sir Clough Williams-Ellis .

## Bayani
An haifi Williams-Ellis a Guildford, Surrey, Ingila, a gidan mai zane kuma mai suka Roger Fry . Mahaifinta, Sir Clough, fitaccen mai zane ne; mahaifiyar Williams-Ellis marubuciya ce Amabel Strachey, 'yar uwan marubuciya kuma fitaccen mutum a Bloomsbury Lytton Strachey . Iyayenta abokan sauran membobin Bloomsbury Group ne, ciki har da Augustus John da Virginia Woolf . Uban Williams-Ellis shine Rudyard Kipling .

Ta ƙuduri aniyar zama mai zane tun tana ƙarama. A shekarun 1930, Susan ta yi nazarin zane-zane tare da Bernard da David Leach a lokacin da take makarantar Dartington Hall.  A Makarantar Fasaha ta Chelsea, a shekarun 1940, malamanta sun haɗa da Graham Sutherland don zane da Henry Moore don sassaka, wanda ya taimaka wajen haɓaka jin daɗin Susan na siffar da siffarta mai girma uku.

## Sana'a
Williams-Ellis ta yi karatun Fine Art a Kwalejin Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Chelsea, inda malamanta suka haɗa da Henry Moore da Graham Sutherland.

A shekarar 1948, Susan da mijinta Euan suka ƙaura zuwa Wales, bayan aurensu a shekarar 1945, kuma suka dogara da kansu. Ta sami kuɗi daga zane-zane da zane-zane na littattafai, yayin da Euan ta samar da ƙasida mai taken " *Towards Equality"*, ga ƙungiyar Fabian.

Duk da haka, jan hankalin Clough game da gine-ginensa ya yi ƙarfi. A shekarar 1953, manajan shagon kayan tarihi a ƙauyen Welsh na Portmeirion, wanda mahaifin Susan ya ƙirƙira, ya faɗi hannun Susan da Euan. Duk da yanayin gine-ginen ƙauyen na musamman, shagon yana aiki ba tare da wani sharaɗi ba. Zuwa shekarar 1961, shagon ya bunƙasa sosai; Susan da Euan su ne manajojin ƙauyen; kuma an buɗe shagon Portmeirion na biyu a ɗaya daga cikin wuraren siyayya mafi wayo a London, Pont Street . Suna aiki bisa ƙa'idar Sir Clough cewa "ƙirƙira mai kyau kasuwanci ne mai kyau", ma'auratan sun canza masana'antun tukwane guda biyu da aka lalata a Stoke-on-Trent zuwa ɗaya daga cikin kamfanonin tukwane mafi arziki a ƙasar, Portmeirion Pottery . A zamanin da ra'ayin "mace mai aiki" ya zama abin ƙyama, nasarar kasuwanci ta Susan Williams-Ellis, a matsayin mai zane da 'yar kasuwa (da kuma mata da uwa), ba ta da yawa.

Portmeirion tana ɗaya daga cikin kamfanonin dillalai na farko da suka fahimci kuma suka yi amfani da salon rayuwa, suna ƙirƙirar kayayyaki iri-iri, ciki har da kayan tebur na yau da kullun, kayan gida da kyaututtuka ga mata da maza. A shekarun 1970, an haifi abin da mutane da yawa ke ɗauka a matsayin sanannen nau'in Portmeirion: Lambun Botanic. Ya dogara ne akan faranti na zane-zane da Susan ta gano a cikin wani littafin tarihin halitta na gargajiya da ta samu a wani gidan sayar da littattafai na tarihi a Landan: Weldon & Wesley. Susan tana neman zane-zane na halittun teku na ƙarni na 18 don amfani da su a cikin kayan ado na tukwane. Ta sayi wasu ƙamus na Faransa kuma, yayin da take tafiya, mai sayar da littattafai ya nuna mata wani littafin 'ganye' mai launin hannu na 1817, wanda aka zana tare da manyan zaɓi na shuke-shuke da furanni. Littafin, na Thomas Green, an kira shi The Universal -or -Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary .

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