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Hellebores and Moorcroft Pottery: ‘Moorcroft Legacy’
Ashwood Nurseries and Moorcroft Pottery have always enjoyed a special relationship and some much loved Moorcroft designs have featured Ashwood’s speciality plants, notably hellebores, cyclamen and hepaticas. February 2014 sees Moorcroft and Ashwood come together in a unique way with the official launch of a long-awaited collaboration.
For the very first time, the owner of Ashwood Nurseries, John Massey VMH, has selected a hellebore that is dedicated to Moorcroft and, to reciprocate, Moorcroft designer Nicola Slaney has adapted the flower for an exquisite new design. Both creations are named Moorcroft Legacy.
‘The art of the potter and the art of the propagator, it could be argued, are not too dissimilar. It takes innate creativity, an eye for detail, a love of your work and painstaking perseverance when the fruits of your labour are not as you expected they would be. Yet, when the day is over and the flaws have been ironed out, the outcome can often be spectacular and always hugely rewarding’.
The 42/12 (height 12”/30cm) vase is an elegant, slender shape, also designed by Nicola, for the warming tones of the Moorcroft Legacy hellebore. Rising from an ivory coloured base, symbolic of snow, the vase has a jet black background which blends to dark purple at the top of the vase, on which dusky pink petals and buds are wrapped around. The magnificent hellebores stand alone, unadorned with any kind of insect and proud in their own beauty. Moorcroft Legacy is a limited edition of 100 pieces with each piece carrying Nicola’s signature.
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