Alison Britton (b.1948) is a leading contemporary British potter with an international reputation. "Her distinctive sculptural works blur the line between art and craft. Works are hand-built from rolled slabs of clay, not thrown on a wheel. Surfaces are exuberantly covered with marks that refer to modern painting as much as the decorative patterns that tend to belong to craft." She is also a highly articulate writer on ceramics and craft; Seeing Things (2013, recently reissued by Occasional Papers), is a collection of her writing.