Joan Brown (née Bruford; 1926 – 6 March 2016) was a British potter.
[1] She set up her pottery workshop in 1967 in Richmond,[2] and exhibited widely in Britain.
She was married to the landscape architect Michael Brown and worked on several projects for architects, including creating a water sculpture for her husband's sunken roof garden design for the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
She studied at Edinburgh College of Art (1945–49) and her tutors included John Maxwell and William Gillies.
This was part of a combined course (1945–49) that also involved studying the history and theory of art at the University of Edinburgh, where she gained a master's degree, followed by postgraduate courses in textile design and etching, the latter at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London (now Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design).