Aline Ellis was an artist, potter and sculptor with life story rather reminiscent to that of Beatrix Potter. She was born in Bishop Auckland in 1886 to a prosperous middle class family, She was a keen horsewoman and from her earliest days showed a talent for drawing and carving models of animals. She went on to study at the Herkomer School of Art at Bushey in Hertfordshire, where she would have encountered the established equine artist Lucy Kemp-Welch, who taught there.

She lived at Ebury Lodge, Little Hadham, Herts where she established a pottery. Many of her pieces are marked “Ebury” or with a simple monogram of entwined EA. She was a well respected artist in her own day with reviews on her work appearing in the Times, Country Life and The Field.

She specialised in animal sculptur in pottery, particularly of dogs and ecquine subjects. She was commissioned to design a series of animal figures by Alex Dickin in the USA which were produced by Royal Worcester c1940.

Aline exhibited widely including at the Fine Art Society (74) and at the Royal Academy.

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