In 1922 Frances Hodgkins moved to the Cotswolds town of Burford about twenty miles from Oxford. There she rented an old barn, which was to serve both as a studio and her living quarters. She was determined to make the barn into a ‘Hodgkins centre’, where pupils could rally round and immerse themselves in art. Hodgkins continued to hold regular art classes and students soon flocked to the small town of Burford.

On the 1st of May, 1923 Frances Hodgkins wrote from her studio in St. Lawrence’s Street to her friends Hannah Ritchie and Jane Saunders:

Amy Krauss suggests coming for the summer with a crate of Pottery and her wheel and setting up business and teaching – I am finding her a shop front – It will be invigorating for Burford.

In a letter to Hannah Ritchie in June, 1923 there is further news of Amy Krauss’s move to Burford.

….. Miss Krauss comes next month. She has got a shop – discovered where to get clay for nothing – where to build a field-furnace – and seems likely to make a good thing of it….

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Written by Grace Alty & Jonathan Gooderham
Edited by Jemma Field