Deanna Petherbridge, who has died aged 84, was the prime example of an artist widely celebrated within her field but rather less well known outside it.
Largely, this was because of her chosen way of making. In a time when fashion called for eclecticism in art – the Young British Artists might move back and forth between video, concept, ceramics and paint – Petherbridge stuck firmly to a single medium. That medium, too, seemed almost wilfully old-fashioned.
