two day workshop at the Shadbolt Centre Seplember & & 9, 9:30 te 16:30

This very full workshop contains an array of thrown work, principally to serve as vehicles for surface enrichment. Decoration techniques are likely to include coloured clay work such as agate ware, nenage and millefori style blockmaking, traditional slipware and mishima, maiolica, brushwork, underglaze, owerglaze and other glaze application and decoration. Accompanying videos complement the on-site demonstrations for processes either not possible in the time available of too complex for a workshop.

Robin is well known as a potter, teacher and arts activist. He was the first recipient of the Bronfman Award, Canada's most prestigious annual award forcrafis. He is the author of The Ceramic Spectrom and Functional Pottery and has written many articles for major international ceramics publications, Robin is founder and dinector of the Metchosin Intemational Summer School of the Anis, and has produced several education videos on ceramic decoration techniques, form and function, throwing and glaze and colour development. Next to ceramics, good living and travel, his other lifelong passion is gardening. His Anglojapanadian garden at “Chosin Pottery has been featured in books,

television and magazines,

Robin has suggested holding a silent auction of the pots he will make at the workshop. It will be a great opportumity to own a “Hopper” that you have seen being made!

GUILD WORKSHOP WITH ROBIN HOPPER

DECORATION, DESIGN & SURFACE ENRICHMENT

Book early; space ts limited. Fees: Early bird registration up to July 31 $74.90 ($58.85 for students) includes GST, No refunds after August 3. Registration after August | $85.60 ($69.55 for students), Please register at the Shadbolt Centre by mail or in person. Make cheques payable tothe City of Burnaby and clearly mark on the cheque “Robin Hopper Workshop.” Mail to the Shadbolt Centre, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, VSG 233. Infor- mation 604.29]. .6864 After August 4, fees will be $90.95 (74.90 for students).

Slide lecture Friday September 7 at 19:00 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Room 328, Granville island. $5 at the door

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In ceramics my particular interest became colour and glazes along with the desire to pul most of my energies onte the ceramic surface, With an early interest in geology and minerals. it was a matural fit in the long-term jigsaw puzzle of fife as a crea tive artist. [t seemed that everything that I had ever done and every interest that | ever had were channeled to give me a future direction as a potter, a direction that has heen ongoing for most of the 45 years since | started at Art school. After finish- ing school I worked in professional thea- Ire, as both actor and stage manager, und ihe travel industry as a European travel guide taking tourists anywhere in Europe from Moscow to Madrid. from Paris to Pisa and Bruges to Berlin. After six years, [had managed to save enough money to buy my first house and develop a studio in the South of England, After all my travel in Europe, | found living in England to be claustrophobic and looked to moving bo Canada, where half of my siblings were already living. | landed a teaching job in Toronte and also quickly established an-

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other studio. After living and working in the city fortwo years | yearned to get back out into the country. | was offered a posi- lion 10 start a new community college program in Georgian College, Barrie. I also started another studio and trained a working crew lo make production pottery that was sold across Canada. After several successful years, | found that the climate of Ontario was beginning to drive me somewhat crazy, The though! of spending more lime in achimate that was intolerable for me was just pot om, so 1 looked to moving to the West Coast. A chance op- portunity to buy a small farm just outside Victoria opened up. Much agains’ many other people's advice I took the chance and relocated ta Metchasin, which has heen home for 24 years now. | travel arcund the world a considerable amount, but I can’t think of anywhere else that | would rather live. [ have been working on amapor Garden as Ant for 23 years. It not only gives me great pleasure in ils own right, but alseis acontinual source of ideas and inspiration for much of the work that [de in porcelain,

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Other than the wide range of functional pottery that make, my one ofa kind work usually comes from four main sources: the landscape, ceramic history, ceramic re- search and the garden. Continual research into glazes and surface ennichment proc- esses Is the ongoing thread that ties it all together, Ceramics is a very complex me- dium, With its reliance on a combination Of ant and science, and being an amalgam of painting and sculpture, itis probably the most complex and demanding of any art form. Through teaching [have been pushed to Jearn and discover. Sharing that infor- mation with others via books, videos and workshops keeps me always on the search for new areas of study. | have been very lucky 10 be able to do what I love doing throughout my life, to give pleasure by having done it, to live in paradise playing with clay and plants and still make enough to hive on. Life has been good!

Almost all of my work 1s seld direct retail from our showroom and gallery, which I share with my wife and partner Juchi Dyelle. Qur website is www.chosinpotiery.ca. Robin Hopper