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Cecily
Fortescue was born in England and received a doctorate in languages from
Oxford University. After four years as Associate Professor
at  London University she tired of teaching and left for Rome. It was
there, while working as a freelance translator, that she first put her
hands to clay.
She became a full-time, predominantly
self-taught potter after moving to New York in 1973. Since then her
award-winning work has been seen in numerous galleries, in the shop of the Museum
of Arts and Design, and in stores
such as Design Technics,
Henri
Bendel, and Macy's Cellar. Six of her pieces are on the juried CDs put out by Art
Communication International. She has taught pottery at the Children's
Aid Society, the 92nd Street Y in New York City and at the Catskill Art
Society in Hurleyville, NY.
Her work is both thrown and handbuilt,
and ranges in size from miniatures to very large vessels constructed
with hand-rolled slabs. She uses a variety of imprinting and glazing
techniques, and each of the large handbuilt pieces is unique in design,
form, and color, with unglazed exteriors often contrasting strongly with
richly colored interiors. Although all are functional, their organic
shapes suggest shell and flower forms and their size lends them a strong
sculptural quality.
Cecily Fortescue now lives and works upstate in
a farmhouse and pottery studio in Callicoon, New York. Her other
interests include gardening, playing the viola, traveling, and hosting a
classical music program on WJFF Radio Catskill.
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