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The Iris Workshops were part of this movement.  The potter (and painter), Alfred William.Finch (1854-1930), an Englishman brought up and educated in Brussels, had an international training and experience which he brought to Finland at the invitation of Louis Sparre, the founder in 1897 of the Workshops in Porvoo.  The Workshops also produced furniture, textiles and glass, all of it radical and influential, despite the Workshops' short existence.  After its closure in 1902, Finch went on to head the ceramics department at the Central School of Industrial Arts in Helsinki.\r\n\r\nFinch's deceptively simple utilitarian earthenwares were part of th Iris Workshops' pioneering attempt to establish a new, essentially Finnish culture, breaking free from former Swedish influence.  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