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Times wrote that her depictions of the English countryside ‘move from
a conventionally illustrative vein to a mood of poetic suggestion and
romantic fantasy’.
From 1949 onwards, her ceramics and paintings were regularly
shown in London at the Ben Uri Gallery – also known as the London
Jewish Museum of Art – as well as at Chartair in Crystal Palace,
the Devonshire Studios in Chiswick and the Alton Gallery in Barnes.
Her works were also exhibited at the Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery.
As the internationally renowned design commentator Alice
Rawsthorne noted in an article in The New York Times in 2009: ‘It is
tempting to think that all a successful designer needs is talent and
determination, but they are not enough when gender, geography, genre
and timing conspire against you, as they did for Margarete Heymann’.
In 2013 her pottery was exhibited for the first time in the United
States at the Milwaukee Art Museum in an exhibition entitled ‘Grete
Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate’.

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