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November 1997

A Taste Of Clay - by Elaine Hughe-Games

This harvest time show put on annually by a

small Eroup ed POtEers in the Ok anaean
Valley was a highlight for local lovers of
clay, who revelled in the variery and

excellence of the work presented.

Each veer We InVvile one or bao guest artists
to join us at che Cormmunity Hall in
okanagarg Mission (that's in Kelowna, for
those of you who haven't made it to cur
valley). This show is strategically inved to
coincide with the big Wine Festival. Qur
question October 3rd and 4th was Leonard
Epp, a master potter who lives quietly on a
rustic farm near Falklands with his goats
and artist wife, Anne Kipling.

Leonhard moves with ease and
consummate skill chrough high fire
porcelain of extreme delicacy, robust yet
elegant raku forms in a stunning spectrum

of colour, sa

far fired ssonew are,
whirrcal ratters such as a yellow:
haired male figure, half-knecling he video

taped the crowd, and low fire pedestal

4 Taste of Clay postcard

bowls, glazed to enhance the plastic feel of
freshly manipulated clay, There were
several muult-chambered forms which
evoked, for me, the fluid lines of a futuristic
space station. These were, in face,
percussion instrument. Different tones
were produced by gently slapping an open
palm over che opening in each chamber.

Leonhard often uses other media to present
his work. His elegant meral stands with
meticulously bound brackets were perfectly
mated to tall, thrown conical forms. Gazing
at them, my imagination flew to che
Turquoise blue water and sparkling white
willas of che Mediterranean.

No dowbt visitors co our show had cheir own
flighcs of fancy criggered by ocher work, as
wre.

Eob Kingsmill's cireular raku rural

bordered by Celtic knots anc birds, a focal

point of the show, is mow a feature of a

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