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Pottery preserves endangered species

A little help for endangered
species is coming from clay.

Reproductions of Canada’s
endangered species by local arti-
san Muriel Sibley are featured at
Maples Gallery in Central Saanich
until August 17. During the show,
bids will be taken on a sculpture
with proceeds going to the World
Wildlife Fund.

“We are so used to thinking of
our country as an Eden-like wil-
derness that we forget how we
threaten the rest of life here,”
Sibley* said.

“Few as we are, and thinly
spread, we are already wreaking
havoc on this land.”

Her work ranges from reproduc-
tions of. the tiny stickle-backs of
Vancouver Island to the beluga
whales of the St. Lawrence seaway.

Pucci and Ruth Duckworth. Her
interest in pottery started when she
was eight and attended a chil-
dren’s art group in a church base-
ment.

She recalls making clay animals
as a child.

“Throughout high school and
university years I leamed to make
pots — hand-built and wheel-
thrown, and I still make them, but
I also still make animals for my
own best enjoyment.

“Perhaps it is the sense of a
consciousness very different from
human which intrigues me; per-
haps it is a sympathy for the
vulnerability of other species as
humanity progresses, destroying
and plundering as we go,” Sibley
explained.

She does not create perfect

to Convey the feeling of the ani-
mal, which she describes as “a
sense of lizardness or cougamess
to those who see them.”

She also tries to create sculp-
tures which have utilitarian uses as
Planters, pots or bird-baths.

“I love the idea of art being
fully integrated with practical
life,” she said.

Married with five children, she
has lived in Victoria since 1971.
She taught pottery through Camo-
sun College at Fort Street Cera-
mics from 1972 to 1974 and in her
own studio from 1974 until 1984.

She joined in a group show at
the Beatrice Jumpson Gallery in
the spring of 1988 and contributed

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to a two person show at the Maples
Gallery last summer.
For more information call 652-

PRODUCING A POT on the wheel is Muriel Sibley, whose
reproductions of endangered species are on display at the

She was inspired by the recently reproductions of animals but tries 2102 or 652-5434. Maples Gallery until August 17.

published book, On the Brink —

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which will also be available at the

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