Digital C-Type print. 45.5 x 40 cm
Made in Britton, 2011
Digital C-Type print. 45.5 x 40 cm
Johan Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Milkmaid c. 1658-60
Johan Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
image © Philip Sayer 2011
Sketch and notes for Made in Britton alongside pot with pricked strap handle, English, 13-14th century. Earthenware, potter unknown. Crafts Study Centre.
image © Philip Sayer 2011

Made in Britton

Portrait of potter Alison Britton referencing Johan Vermeer’s The Milkmaid. Alison holds a 13th – 14th century English earthenware jug from Bernard Leach’s source collection, Crafts Study Centre, and surrounded by a number of her own works.

Created for the exhibition Memoranda at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, 2011. An exhibition that casts the light of memory on contemporary artworks and on items from the collections from the Crafts Study Centre, curated by Tessa Peters and Janice West and including works by Maisie Broadhead, Stephen Dixon, Laura Potter and Elaine Wilson.