Watts Gallery: The Remarkable Life and Works of Mary Watts

I am an interior designer on a mission to champion craftsmanship through Artfully Crafted, a platform I have created to spotlight the current generation of master makers in order to inspire the next. Discover the skills and meet the makers behind a broad and diverse range of crafts from silversmithing and woodcarving to weaving and embroidery, with a new video published every Saturday. Collections Curator at Watts Gallery, Penelope Hines, joins me at Limnerslease House, the former home of George and Mary Watts. We explore the Watts’ philanthropy, the stunning Cemetery Chapel, and the Compton Potter’s Arts Guild - a beautiful example of how craft can shape a community. Contents of this video: 0:00 Coming up 0:53 Introduction to George and Mary Watts 3:34 Limnerslease House: Interior Architecture and Design 20:23 The Potters' Arts Guild at Compton 27:10 William De Morgan Lustreware 28:55 How Mary Watts Made Her Decorative Motifs 32:00 Compton Pottery Terracotta Well 34:45 Watts Cemetery Chapel THINGS MENTIONED Watts Gallery Website: https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/ Watts Gallery Instagram:   / wattsgallery   Making the Watts Chapel interior:    • Making the Watts Chapel interior   Gesso workshop https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/event... Instagram:   / alienorcros   TikTok:   / alienorcros   Sign up to my newsletter to get a monthly roundup: https://alienorcros.com Get in touch: [email protected] Produced and presented by Aliénor Cros https://www.alienorcros.com/ Shot and edited by Edgar Lowe Music by Lorena Shapiro   / upper_attic   Stop-motion intro by Georgie Beattie   / gbeats24   All opinions are my own. This video is not an instructional guide. © 2025 Alienor Cros. All rights reserved.