Don Potter

**Donald Steele Potter** (21 Afrilu 1902 - 7 Yuni 2004) ƙwararren mai sassaka ne na Ingila, mai sassaka itace, mai tukwane kuma malami .   

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Don Potter a Newington, kusa da Sittingbourne, Kent, ɗan wani malamin makaranta, kuma ya halarci wata makaranta mai zaman kanta.  Ya shiga Wolf Cubs yana da shekaru takwas kuma ya zama mai himma a cikin ƙungiyar leƙen asiri .

## Sana'a
Potter ya girma a matsayin mai sassaka itace, yana samar da sandunan totem, ƙofofi da ƙofofi. Lokacin da Potter ya kai shekaru ashirin, shugaban Scouts, Baden-Powell da kansa, ya fahimci cewa ƙwararren masani ne. Potter ya yi sansani a gidan Baden-Powell da ke Pax Hill kusa da Bentley, Hampshire kuma ya ɗauki nauyin sassaka masa. Ya yi amfani da tsoffin bishiyoyin oak na gida da suka faɗi, waɗanda aka ce sun kai shekaru 1,200. Don Jamboree na Duniya na 1929, Potter ya tsara sandunan totem don Mulkin Burtaniya na Ostiraliya, Kanada, Indiya, Afirka ta Kudu da New Zealand.

Baya ga sassaka itace, Potter ya fara aiki a kan dutse kuma ya haɗu da Jacob Epstein (wanda ya yi karatu tare da Auguste Rodin a Paris ). A shekarar 1931, ya tuntuɓi Eric Gill ya nemi ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashinsa. Gill ƙwararren mai sassaka ne, mai tsara rubutu da sassaka, tare da sassaka a Cathedral na Westminster . Da farko, Potter yana kan gwaji na watanni shida, amma ya ci gaba da zama ɗalibin Gill na tsawon shekaru shida. Ya yi aiki tare da Gill a kan sassaka a Otal ɗin Midland, Morecambe . Yayin da yake tare da Gill, ya yi aikin sassaka itace, gami da bangarorin ƙofofin Ɗakin Littattafai Masu Rare na 1934   a cikin Laburaren Kimiyya na Radcliffe ( Jami'ar Oxford ),  gicciye don bagadin cocin St Peter Manzo ( Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk ), da kuma gicciye a cikin dazuzzuka a Pigotts inda Gill yake kusa da High Wycombe . 

Baya ga kasancewarsa mai sassaka, Potter ya yi aikinsa na ƙarshe a matsayin malami a Makarantar Bryanston da ke Dorset (1940–1984), yana da alhakin sassaka da tukwane .  Kafin ya karɓi wannan naɗin, bai taɓa yin wani aikin tukwane ba, kuma ya ɗauki darussa daga Amy Krauss a Corfe Castle sannan Winchcombe Pottery inda Ray Finch da Michael Cardew ke aiki.  A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, Sir Terence Conran ya sami kwarin gwiwa daga gare shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin ɗalibansa. Potter ya ci gaba da gudanar da ayyuka a lokacin da yake malami, ciki har da wasu na Makarantar. Misali, ana iya ganin misalan sassaka dutse da ya yi a 1991 a wata cocin gida a ƙauyen Durweston .

Baranda Cocin Our Lady of Grace da St Teresa na Avila RC da ke Chingford, Arewa maso Gabashin London, tana da allon itacen oak da ke nuna dabbobi da kifaye da Potter ya sassaka a shekarar 1956.  

Babban aikin da Potter ya yi shi ne mutum-mutumin dutse na Robert Baden-Powell (1960–61) wanda ya tsaya a gaban sabon gidan Baden-Powell a Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London . [1] [2] Duk da haka, an sayar da wannan kadarar, kuma an mayar da mutum-mutumin zuwa Hedikwatar Scout da ke Gilwell Park, Chingford. Wani daga cikin ayyukansa shi ne Dutsen Tunawa da Tsibirin Brownsea, wanda 'yar BP Betty ta buɗe a ranar 1 ga Agusta 1967.

**Makarantar Fasaha ta Don Potter** da ke Makarantar Bryanston, wacce aka buɗe a watan Oktoban 1997 a gabansa, an sanya mata suna ne saboda sunansa. 

## Hotunan Hotuna

Fayil:Don_Potter_Art_School_-_October_1997.jpg|alt=Don Potter with the carved sign at the opening of the Don Potter Art School, Bryanston School, October 1997| Don Potter dauke da alamar da aka sassaka a bude Makarantar Fasaha ta Don Potter, Makarantar Bryanston, Oktoba 1997
Fayil:Sculpture_of_Robert_Baden-Powell_by_Don_Potter,_1960.jpg|alt=Statue of Robert Baden-Powell (1960–61), Baden-Powell House, Queen's Gate, London| Mutum-mutumin Robert Baden-Powell (1960–61), Gidan Baden-Powell, Ƙofar Sarauniya, London
Fayil:Don_Potter_sculpture,_St_Nicholas,_Durweston.JPG|alt=Carving on the south face of the tower of St Nicholas church in Durweston, Dorset, by Don Potter (1991)| An sassaka a gefen kudu na hasumiyar cocin St Nicholas da ke Durweston, Dorset, ta Don&nbsp;Mai ginin tukwane (1991)


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