Foreword

This foreword was published in a catalogue to accompany the exhibition 'Life and Still Life', at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, 16 October to 15 December 2012.\ud \ud In the exhibition, Alison Britton shows a selection of objects from her own 'study collection' of other people's work - paintings, photographs, drawings, pots, tableware - as a framework for a group of her new pots, mainly in red clay, which she started to use after a residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan in 2010