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Hermia Sappho Boyd (née LLOYD-JONES) (10 August 1931 – 25 January 2000) was an Australian designer and artist well known for her ceramics, glass and drawings. The daughter of graphic artist Herman and Erica Lloyd-Jones, she studied sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell at East Sydney Technical School (1945-1947) and worked and exhibited in Australia, England and France. In France, she studied wood-engraving with Edward Gordon Craig and studied studied etching with Sathish Sharma. She died in 2000.

Career

Hermia started to work and show her ceramic work along with her husband's pottery in Elizabeth Bay, NSW in 1949. It was not until she and her husband moved to London in 1950, did her work become more well known. The couple obtained a license to sell their pottery from the Board of Trade, issued through the Crafts Council of Great Britain, and they soon found a ready market for their work in many fashionable London outlets. The British trade journals Pottery and Glass and Pottery Gazette featured their work, as did several lifestyle magazines, and they were able to obtain a lucrative license to produce items for the 1951 Festival of Britain.

Marriage

In 1949, Hermia married David Boyd of the Boyd artistic dynasty. They had three daughters Amanda Boyd, Lucinda Boyd, Cassandra Boyd. Hermia is also the sister of Australian actress Clytie Jessop.

Daughter Amanda died in 1998, leaving two young sons for whom she and her husband took responsibility.