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Helen Mason (potter) (Helen Wilmot Valentine) was born on 30 April, 1915 in Darfield, New Zealand, is a New Zealand potter, writer and editor (1915–2014). Discover Helen Mason (potter)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 99 years old?
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Helen Wilmot Valentine |
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| Age |
99 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
| Born |
30 April, 1915 |
| Birthday |
30 April |
| Birthplace |
Darfield, New Zealand |
| Date of death |
22 August, 2014 |
| Died Place |
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand |
| Nationality |
New Zealand
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Helen Mason (potter) Height, Weight & Measurements
At 99 years old, Helen Mason (potter) height not available right now. We will update Helen Mason (potter)'s Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Helen Mason (potter) Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Helen Mason (potter) worth at the age of 99 years old? Helen Mason (potter)’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from New Zealand. We have estimated Helen Mason (potter)'s net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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| Source of Income |
writer |
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Timeline
Helen Wilmot Mason (née Valentine; 30 April 1915 – 22 August 2014) was a New Zealand potter as well as the co-founder and editor of the New Zealand Potter magazine for which she also wrote.
Born in Darfield in 1915, Mason grew up in Wellington.
In 1938 her engagement to Malcolm John Mason was announced, and the couple married the following year.
Described as an influential figure in New Zealand crafts and ceramics at the forefront of the emerging New Zealand pottery movement in the 1950s, Mason exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally.
Mason took up pottery in 1953, attending classes and buying a diesel kiln from her husband's aunt, Elizabeth Matheson.
In 1958, she and Blumhardt co-founded New Zealand Potter magazine, which Mason edited for nine years.
The same year she was commissioned to produce the crockery for Wellington's first cafe, the Monde Marie.
The early 1960s saw Mason become a full-time potter, and she abandoned her home and marriage, moving to the Waitākere Ranges, then Ōtāne in Hawke's Bay and, in 1974, Tokomaru Bay.
It was there that she was involved with establishing the Tauira Craft Centre with Ngoi Pēwhairangi.
A stoneware experimentalist, she had by 1964 exhibited in Australia, Japan and Washington.
As well as editing The New Zealand Potter, Mason contributed to the New Zealand Listener and wrote a number of books on pottery and crafts, including Ten years of pottery in New Zealand (1967), Waima of Tokomaru Bay (1984) and Commitment to clay (2008).
In the 1990s she lived in a house truck, purchased with the proceeds from the sale of a McCahon painting, near Brickell's home in Coromandel.
She featured in an episode of the television arts show The Big Art Trip in 2002.
She was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to pottery, in 2005.
In the 2005 New Year Honours she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to pottery.
Works by Mason are held in the permanent collection of the Dowse Art Museum.
In 2005, she published her memoir, entitled Helen Mason's scrapbook: 50 years as a backyard potter.
She later returned to Hawke's Bay where, from 2006 to 2011, she resided in the eponymous Helen Mason House at the Waiohiki Creative Arts Village.
