MELLON, Eric James(1925-2014)

Biography

Eric James Mellon was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist who was born in Watford, Hertfordshire.  In his early teens he  attended Watford Technical and Art Institute to prepare for a career in the local printing industry and at weekends he would Harrow School of Art for life drawing and pottery classes. In 1944 he enrolled at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London to study book production and printmaking. The wood-engraver John Farleigh was a particular mentor and Mellon’s early neo-romantic prints show Farleigh’s influence. Mellon had become a founder member of the Craftsmen Potters Association in 1958. He had more than 30 solo exhibitions, many of which concentrated on his ceramics. Mellon’s ceramics are in many British public collections including Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery, the Crafts Study Centre in Farnham, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the York Museums Trust, as part of the William Ismay collection.