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News From Around The
Province

The Caribeo Potters Guild Newsletter,
put together by Connie Haeussler, reports
the following;

A workshop with Leonhard Epp was held in
late September. Leonhard, who lives in
Falkland, BC, was trained in the Bernard
Leach tradition and says he’s spenc the rest
of his life undearning the rules he was
tight. He says there are no rules, but he
likes to reach techniques thar he wished
sonvecme else hact caught him, so he
wouldn't have to figure ic out himself.

His latese work is a series of men swallowing
fish whole, a reversal of the Jenah and che
whale ster. Leonhard uses a mold for the
basic form and then alters each piece. They
are raku fired and acrylic paine is used for
post-firing results.

He demonstrated how te make very call
candlesticks, using [mco Sculpture mix
clay. He throws cwo thick inverted cups as
hases, twists a thick strip of clay and
fashions a cane out of a very thinly rolled
slab (use plascic berween the rolling pin and
the clay for a very thin slab, roll between 2
pieces of plastic for really chin slab). He
aneaches all che poeces whule sell aot, the ni
bends and manipulates the stems. He chen
attaches sprigs of clay and scranches
impressions into che clay to canch the glaze.

Cre of moy favourtres waa the
demonstration of how to make an Axel
Ebert jug handle. Ebert was a pioneer
patter who lived in Vernon and died in the
early fifties. His pots are now collecter's
items, the Wernon Art Gallery having a fine
collection. Anyway, Ebert had a unique
method of making a jug handle which
Leonhard thinks was based on ancient
Greek vases. He ateached a plug to the jug
and then atrached a scandard, pulled
handle to the plug, Leonhard’s own
variation involves an additional loop. He
likes tes pass this bec hricpae ontc scudencs,
because it's an original BVC tradition and he
likes to chink of ic being concinwed.

The CPG has been offering beginners’
courses for 10 years mow, This translares
inte 240 people in the community being
introduced to clay. It's also a big fundraiser
for che guild, as guild members donate cheir
time to teach.

There has been no reiponsée to a requesc
for information on insurance issues feed
by other potters and muilds chat was
placed in the BRD Potters Guild
Newsletrer.

CPG members will be giving monch}y
demonstrations at the Guild meetings and
patlucks,

The Fraser Valley Potters Guild
Newsletter, produced by Darrel
Hancock, reports that they held a kiln
building warkshop chat was noc (as !
erromecuesty reported -Karen pes) lect by
Henry Mead. The intrepid group went
ahead, armed with photos and a Ceramacs
Monthly article, and pressed on. They
built and fired the kiln, despine some
problems caused by bricks from the USA
being non-metric and bricks bought in
Canada being in metric measurements,
fired che kiln and enjoyed great success.
Darrel is enjoying the toascy, flashed form
of the mug he snuck into the firing ( he
thanks Larry and Darlene for that one).

The October meeting of che FYPG was
scheduled to have Joan Brunews, the new
pottery instructor at Emily Carr, show
slides of her thrown and altered work,

The FVPG Campbell Valley Country
Celebration raku fundraiser raised over
$5000. Apparently, che mew feature of a
children's tenet was a preat success -full of
busy and industrious youngsters very
involved in their projects.

The Arrowsmith Porters Guild
Newsletter, compiled by Les Crimp,
reports that they were scheduled to have
a workshop in mid-Oceober. Linda Reid
was leading a three day tle workshop
designed to give a working insight ince all
forms of tile making,

The APG also offers pottery lessons for
residents in the Parksville region at their
wondertul studio in the old train station,
[f you are in the area, drop in and check ir

TLR.

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