HAL RIEGGER
Ilandcraft House. June —- July, 1970.

Riegger: "The substance out of which pots are made Is clay".

The elements of a way of seeing expressed incley. A twist of
subtly coloured clay that reveals itself as a box, a lid, a con-
tainer for three flat disks,

Betty Feves: “To feel thoroughly at home, to feel thoroughly free
with a material you have to know it s0 well you don't
have to think about it any more",

The intricate simplicities of the teabowls, each complete, serene,

revealing without strain the relationships of lip and foot rim, con-
cave and convex, clay and glaze. The sudden strenoth of brilliant

red glaze on the dense black of the clay,

Riegger: “One's aim is to become oneself. In achieving selfness
one cannot help but be different”.

The tragic intensity of the black mask: the horror of a twisted,
molten shape; the ironic complexities of "Jesus was here",

Rlegger: “To say that individual freedom is born of certain disci-
plines is to say, in part, what Raku is about",

The plates seem not to have been made but to have grown each in
relation to the others: and each ts a whole.

Riegger: “Any clay is easy to work with so long as its nature is
understood".

The elements of a way of seeing, of thinking, of feeling expressed in
clay.
Gillian Hodge

LOW FIRE LEADLESS GLAZES = by Robin Hopper

The last issue of Tactile included a number of leadless earthenware

glaze recipes, same of which were erroneously attributed to me,
iy