two day workshop
at the Shadbolt Centre
Seplember & & 9, 9:30 te 16:30

This very full workshop contains an array of thrown work, principally to serve as vehicles
for surface enrichment. Decoration techniques are likely to include coloured clay work
such as agate ware, nenage and millefori style blockmaking, traditional slipware and
mishima, maiolica, brushwork, underglaze, owerglaze and other glaze application and
decoration. Accompanying videos complement the on-site demonstrations for processes
either not possible in the time available of too complex for a workshop.

Robin is well known as a potter, teacher and arts activist. He was the first recipient of
the Bronfman Award, Canada's most prestigious annual award forcrafis. He is the author
of The Ceramic Spectrom and Functional Pottery and has written many articles for
major international ceramics publications, Robin is founder and dinector of the Metchosin
Intemational Summer School of the Anis, and has produced several education videos on
ceramic decoration techniques, form and function, throwing and glaze and colour
development. Next to ceramics, good living and travel, his other lifelong passion is
gardening. His Anglojapanadian garden at “Chosin Pottery has been featured in books,

television and magazines,

Robin has suggested holding a silent auction of the pots he will make at the workshop.
It will be a great opportumity to own a “Hopper” that you have seen being made!

GUILD WORKSHOP WITH ROBIN HOPPER

DECORATION, DESIGN & SURFACE ENRICHMENT

Book early; space ts limited. Fees: Early
bird registration up to July 31 $74.90
($58.85 for students) includes GST, No
refunds after August 3. Registration after
August | $85.60 ($69.55 for students),
Please register at the Shadbolt Centre by
mail or in person. Make cheques payable
tothe City of Burnaby and clearly mark on
the cheque “Robin Hopper Workshop.”
Mail to the Shadbolt Centre, 6450 Deer
Lake Avenue, Burnaby, VSG 233. Infor-
mation 604.29]. .6864 After August 4, fees
will be $90.95 (74.90 for students).

Slide lecture
Friday September 7 at 19:00
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design,
Room 328, Granville island.
$5 at the door

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In ceramics my particular interest became
colour and glazes along with the desire to
pul most of my energies onte the ceramic
surface, With an early interest in geology
and minerals. it was a matural fit in the
long-term jigsaw puzzle of fife as a crea
tive artist. [t seemed that everything that I
had ever done and every interest that | ever
had were channeled to give me a future
direction as a potter, a direction that has
heen ongoing for most of the 45 years
since | started at Art school. After finish-
ing school I worked in professional thea-
Ire, as both actor and stage manager, und
ihe travel industry as a European travel
guide taking tourists anywhere in Europe
from Moscow to Madrid. from Paris to
Pisa and Bruges to Berlin. After six years,
[had managed to save enough money to
buy my first house and develop a studio in
the South of England, After all my travel in
Europe, | found living in England to be
claustrophobic and looked to moving bo
Canada, where half of my siblings were
already living. | landed a teaching job in
Toronte and also quickly established an-

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other studio. After living and working in
the city fortwo years | yearned to get back
out into the country. | was offered a posi-
lion 10 start a new community college
program in Georgian College, Barrie. I
also started another studio and trained a
working crew lo make production pottery
that was sold across Canada. After several
successful years, | found that the climate
of Ontario was beginning to drive me
somewhat crazy, The though! of spending
more lime in achimate that was intolerable
for me was just pot om, so 1 looked to
moving to the West Coast. A chance op-
portunity to buy a small farm just outside
Victoria opened up. Much agains’ many
other people's advice I took the chance
and relocated ta Metchasin, which has
heen home for 24 years now. | travel
arcund the world a considerable amount,
but I can’t think of anywhere else that |
would rather live. [ have been working on
amapor Garden as Ant for 23 years. It not
only gives me great pleasure in ils own
right, but alseis acontinual source of ideas
and inspiration for much of the work that
[de in porcelain,

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Other than the wide range of functional
pottery that make, my one ofa kind work
usually comes from four main sources: the
landscape, ceramic history, ceramic re-
search and the garden. Continual research
into glazes and surface ennichment proc-
esses Is the ongoing thread that ties it all
together, Ceramics is a very complex me-
dium, With its reliance on a combination
Of ant and science, and being an amalgam
of painting and sculpture, itis probably the
most complex and demanding of any art
form. Through teaching [have been pushed
to Jearn and discover. Sharing that infor-
mation with others via books, videos and
workshops keeps me always on the search
for new areas of study. | have been very
lucky 10 be able to do what I love doing
throughout my life, to give pleasure by
having done it, to live in paradise playing
with clay and plants and still make enough
to hive on. Life has been good!

Almost all of my work 1s seld direct retail
from our showroom and gallery, which I
share with my wife and partner Juchi Dyelle.
Qur website is www.chosinpotiery.ca.
Robin Hopper