Brenda Andersen designed many of Andersen Design's production patterns and in the process there were times when she veneered into pure creativity producing uniquely and spontaneous one of a kind objects of art.The liberty to let the craftsmanship and discipline of repetitive patterning interact with the inspired imagination of the creative artisan became part of the Andersen Design production process confounding conventional concepts of production.

This Platter decorated in a blue green tree exemplifies the way that Brenda was able to decorate in a style that is at one controlled and lyrical. The graceful leaves and branches require a discipline of will to maintain their consistent character but it there is never a feeling of a mechanized routine in Brenda's work. Although the leaves have an elegant consistency in form, the intuitive arrangement of the leaves and the branches expresses a faith in a spontaneous unfolding of the world.

You may observe in the photographs a section of the platter which looks as if it has tape on top of it, but that is an illusion. There must have been an occasion in which tape was laid on top of this latter before firing. I can think of no other explanation for the strange marking.

The one of its kind painted in a blue, grey and white color pallette on Weston's long oval platter, circa 1950's.16 inches long, 7.5 inches wide. i inch high.There is no signature on the back, indicating that it may be one of the first platters made when there was not much thought about signing it. The platter is slightly larger than later platters, indicating a very early version of the platter.