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With regard to the use of media: Catharni Stern has done rather less carving but she has made more use of clay. Her approach remains consistent because the works are directly modelled in order to enable them to be fired to partially vitrified terracotta or to stoneware temperatures. She has brought a
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to study for a degree at the School of
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Catharni Stern was born on 22 August 1925. Her governess, Miss Cox conventionally restricted her when
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Catharni Stern's family has produced many dedicated to the idea of service to the community. Her unusual name came through a mistake in the transcription of a telegram sent by her father, suggesting that she be called
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Catharni Stern studied one year A.T.D. course at London
University Institute of Education. Then there came a turning point in Catharni Stern's career in 1960: She left her teaching job at
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exploration, such as in modelling with clay found on the beach at Bude during the ritual annual fortnight at the seaside or in carving motor cars out of blocks of salt.
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Brampton. Their son Ernest Hamilton Stern was born in 1886, was educated as a paymaster in the
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