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educated audience. Her work only began to be collected systematically in the late 1960s, and her pottery and other works (including paintings, linocuts, and sketchbooks) are now in major
Australian collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. The South Australian Art Gallery holds a portrait of Reynell in her mid-twenties painted by her friend Bessie Davidson.
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Victoria state, where they started Osrey Pottery. The firm's name was an amalgam of their surnames. Their products were very popular and were sold in Melbourne through the Primrose Pottery Shop and also at street fairs, where Reynell would sometimes draw attention by throwing pottery on the spot.
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Reynella Pottery single-handed proved difficult, and sometime after 1920, Reynell hired George Samuel Osborne, an ex-serviceman and gardener, as her assistant. They developed a close relationship and eventually decided to marry. Since Osborne's family had worked as servants for the Reynells
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Reynell's reputation was slow to take off, in part because she worked to a great extent isolated from the larger
Australian art community (first at Reynella, later at Ballarat). In addition, because she was pioneering the field of ceramics in Australia, she lacked both a community of peers and an
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Reynell's pottery consisted mainly of earthenware bowls, cups, and other kitchenware decorated with designs of
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Reynell's pottery date from this period, and she had already begun to manifest an interest in using clay from her native land by having a sample of clay from
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tradition, so it was European settlers like Reynell who brought the art of pottery to the continent.) She remarked on her excitement over using clays native to Australia "that had never before known potter's hands."
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clay with a reddish-brown slip; later she became known for a deep cobalt blue body colour (over a paler clay body). The bold, linear decorations that were her hallmark were inspired by a number of sources: by the
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