This is a another piece of Crich Art Pottery that I have on our website.
It dates to the 1980s. This one substantial teapot stand or trivet. It has a diameter of 8 inches and a depth of half an inch. The decoration is very painterly, and it is certainly a fabulous example. The image on the platter looks like a countryside landscape with the tops of grey bushes foreground and in distance are dark plum abstracted tree tops.
It is nice and clean and in pristine condition. The back is covered with a thin layer of cork to stop the plate slipping about on your worktop. The cork is lovely and clean.
Diana Worthy had studied at Camberwell and then at Croydon, under the tutelage of Bridget Riley and Barry Fantoni. She completed her Master's Degree at the Royal College of Art, under David (Lord Queensberry). After graduating she worked for a period at the Kilkenny Design Workshop and then at Denby.
In 1975 Diana and her husband set up the Crich Pottery in Derbyshire. The pottery operated for nearly 30 years, selling works to the British Arts Council, Heals, Liberty’s, as well as exporting to Japan, Norway, Germany, and the States.
The pottery closed in 2004 when Diana moved to Spain. She now keeps alpacas and makes artworks and textile from their wool.
Postage will be with Royal Mail Tracked (Small Parcel). This will be applied to your order at the checkout.
TECHNIQUE: Diana’s pots show her love of nature, featuring hills, trees, flowers and leaves and to her constant preoccupation with and love of colour. Decorative techniques involve using many layers of coloured glazes, made at the pottery, either by dipping or pouring over the biscuit ware (once fired). Each glaze interacts and reacts to produce different colours. The next stage involves drawing designs into the dried glazes (sgraffito) then blending everything together with a final overspray of glaze which again, changes the colours (acknowledgement to Joan Witham for this description of Diana Worthy's technique).