Clarice Cliff to decorate some of the old defective 'glost' (white) ware in her own freehand patterns. For these she used on-glaze enamel colours, which enabled a brighter palette than underglaze colours. She covered the imperfections in simple patterns of triangles, in a style that she called 'Bizarre'. The earliest examples had just a hand-painted mark, usually in a rust coloured paint, 'Bizarre by Clarice Cliff', sometimes with 'Newport Pottery' underneath. To the surprise of the company's senior salesman Ewart Oakes, when he took a car load to a major stockist, it was immediately popular. Clarice was joined by young painter Gladys
Clarice Smith Clarice Smith Clarice Smith (born 1933) is an American painter and portraitist whose paintings have been exhibited in a number of exhibitions in the United States and Europe. With her late spouse, Robert H. Smith, Clarice Smith has engaged in philanthropy, especially at the University of Maryland, where the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is named for her. Clarice Smith studied art at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and the University of Maryland. She received her MFA from George Washington University, where she later taught as a member of faculty. Smith, who describes herself as a "lifelong