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3 unusual facts about Frank Carpay


Ernest Shufflebotham

In 1948 Shufflebotham was brought to New Zealand by Crown Lynn along with a number of other designers including Frank Carpay to work in the company's 'Specials Department'.

Frank Carpay

In doing so he joined a number of other artists also using these motifs as artistic inspiration at the time including Theo Schoon, A. R. D. Fairburn, and Gordon Walters.

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Carpay established his own small commercial pottery in Tegelen, Het Edele Ambacht, a small manufactory of ceramics, glass, furniture, and metalwork.



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