A beautiful and inspiring book with portraits and capsule bio-
graphies of nine well-known English artist potters. 35 of the
photographs are in full colour. There are concise notes describing
each illustration with reference to the clay body, glaze and firing
conditions. It is interesting to note that all these artists are

also teachers; some working part time and some almost full time.
Three use electric kilns and the others use gas or oil fired kilns.

Johann Polberg

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DISTRICT NEWS

Okanagan News

When the spring sun dries the back roads of our valley, Bob
Kingsmill and I, Frances Hatfield, will be out prospecting for
pottery materials. We have obtained soil survey maps which pro-
vide some interesting clues and from time to time we pick up a bit
of helpful information from some old timer of the area. It appears
that we can expect to find quite a nice range of materials here in
the interior. In my case, I hope to rig a grinder in the flume
carrying creek water to our orchard, for it runs with considerable
speed for about six months of the year. We cannot foresee our-
selves gathering all our needs in this way but we do feel that
some interesting local materials wil! add to the actualness of the
pots we do here,

If anyone is interested in finding out the locations from us, just
drop us a line and we will try to pin-point them on a map for you.

The Kelowna classes of Mary Turk and Frances Hatfield are larger
than ever this year and no one welcomes the end of the sessions.
Students seem to become more aware and more enthused from year
to year,

Frances Hatfield

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