there are some returns: Largely the prospect of enlarging one's
experience of pottery through the careful and minute study of objects
in a situation which demands fecus and concentration,

In choosing the entries from B,C, to be included in the Canadian
Ceramics 65 Exhibition, we, the fury, were given no instructions,
We were given a free hand; there was no interference, no hints as to
the number of entries accepted in other years, no suggestions that
certain names might be given special consideration. This tacit
tribute to our objectivity was appreciated, We knew only that the
exhibition for which we were acting as western jury was to be on a
national level and that therefore, without being told, the standards
by which we were to judge must be of the highest. To send to such a
show works of questionable quality would reflect credit on no-one ~-
the potter, the jury, nor on the reputation of the region,

I could say for all of us I think that our chief search was for picces
which had vitality and originality - that quality of life and indivi-
duality and presence which any work of art may have, whether
painting, sculpture or whatever, By originality of course one does
not mean that one expects a shape or a glaze or a decoration which
within by the potter's understanding and sensitivity,

Seme of the most difficult rejections we had to make were those of
obviously competent professional technicians whose forms bordered
on the cliches seen in current craft magazines and failed to
communicate any first-hand experience. I should say we were
more inclined to be forgiving of a minor technical deficiency pro~
vided that the piece had some urgency about it - though we certainly
felt that technical excellence should be assumed in entries for this
kind of show.

A number of the better-known potters of the region, for whatever
reasons of their own, did not submit work while several others,
clearly did not enter their best work, Had it not been for this fact,
B,C,'s entry this year would undoubtedly have been larger and more
impressive than it was, D5.