My brother, Derek Andrews, who has died aged 89, was a much loved potter and painter living in Cambridgeshire, helped by his wife, Margot, also an artist, with whom he ran a successful pottery. Derek had trained, for a six-month period in 1958, with the prominent artist Bernard Leach at his pottery in St Ives, Cornwall; he also became a talented landscape painter.
Diagnosed with cancer last year, Derek opted not to have chemotherapy, and instead, at the age of 88, turned to a new discipline – metal sculpture. He exploited a feeling of well-being that culminated in a successful exhibition of his work last winter at the Old Fire Engine House in Ely.
