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Susan Vera Cooper OBE (29 October 1902 – 28 July 1995) was a prolific England ceramic designer working in the Stoke-on-Trent pottery industries from the 1920s to the 1980s.
She was so successful at decorating wares created by Harry Wood that in the 1930s she set up her business in his factory in Burslem. Her business was there for the next fifty years and surprisingly for the time led by a woman.
She worked for many other pottery firms over the next several decades, including Wedgwood. In 1940 she was awarded Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts, and in 1979 she received an OBE. The Princess Royal and Elizabeth, The Queen Mother were purchasers of her work.
At the age of 80 she retired to live on the Isle of Man, and died there in 1995. Like the Potteries-based ceramic designers Clarice Cliff and Charlotte Rhead, her work has become valued by some pottery collectors.
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Categories: 1902 Births, 1995 Deaths, Artists From Staffordshire, English Potters, English Ceramicists, Alumni Of The Royal College Of Art, Dinnerware Designers, People From Burslem, Alumni Of Burslem School Of Art, Officers Of The Order Of The British Empire, British Women Potters, 20th-century British Ceramists, English Women Ceramicists, Royal Designers For Industry
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