Margaret Hine

{{Short description|British studio potter}}{{Infobox person | birth_date = 1927 | death_date = 1987 | occupation = Studio Potter | spouse = William R. Newland 1950-1987 (her death) | children = 2 }}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Ceramic bird by Margaret Hine.jpg|300px|right|thumbnail|Ceramic bird by Margaret Hine, 1950s. Glazed stoneware with sgraffito decoration.]]

'''Margaret Hine''' (1927–1987) was a British studio potter. She was known in the 1950s for her animal figures but also produced painted dishes and ceramic murals.<ref name="watson">Oliver Watson, ''Studio Pottery'', London: Phaidon Press, 1993</ref>

==Life== She studied at Derby School of Art and then went to the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she studied pottery under Dora Billington, and the Institute of Education, where she studied under William R. Newland.<ref name="Designing Britain: 1945-1975: Oral testimony and the Interpretation of the Crafts">{{cite web|last1=Partington|first1=Matthew|title=Designing Britain: 1945-1975: Oral testimony and the Interpretation of the Crafts|url=http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/designingbritain/html/otc_biog.html|website=VADS|date=8 August 2002 |publisher=University for the Creative Arts|accessdate=20 March 2016}}</ref> From 1949 to 1954 she had a studio in Bayswater, London, with Newland and Nicolas Vergette.

She married Newland in 1950, with whom she had two children, and in 1954 set up a studio with him in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire.<ref name=watson/> Their archive is held by the University of Wales, Cardiff.<ref name="Designing Britain: 1945-1975: Oral testimony and the Interpretation of the Crafts" />

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