4 FOUNDER: STAN CLARKE

Stan Clarke was the first Vice President of the Potters Guild of B.C. He is a largely self: taught potter who still can be found occasionally at the Green Barn, Stan taught at the U.B.C. College of Education for eleven vears, His pots were shown in many Canadian ceramics shows, in Washington State and overseas in Brussels, Prague, Ostend and Stratford. In the 1980/s he won an award from the Vancouver Art Gallery for a teapot entered in a local teapot show.

Stan and other early members of the Guild were instrumental in making pottery supplies available to B.C. potters. Stan opened a pottery supply business in 1953 that was sold to another potter in 1956. In 1972, following & trip to Medicine Hat and Plainsman Clay works, Stan opened another supply business selling Plainsman clays to B.C. potters,

[Material extracted from "Retrospect Ceramics 80°, the 25th anniversary catalog of B.C, potters work published by the Potters Guild of B.C.)

POTS AND PEOPLE

MAGGI KNEER

I find that one of the difficulties of potting in Vancouver is that there are too many distractions. It is very hard to discipline myself to work. I try to start work every

morning at nine. My studio is a converted garage downstairs, The doors were replaced with glass sliding doors and windows and baseboard heaters were installed ao I am not freezing in winter. I do have to share this space with the washing machine and dryer, so T offen pop in the odd load between throwing a few coffee mugs. The studio faces west and looks out onto the street and on nice days the sun streams through the windows. It is always intervsting to see who is passing by and to watch the kids playing on the street,

Tam also on the local cats! visiting list. They all come in for a quick stroke and a sniff around the glaze buckets. My two are always in the studio with me when not chasing the squirrels and terrorising the neighbourhood. My Balinese, Kandinsky, likes to sleep on my shoulders while I work and Georgina Fat Cat, the moggie, likes to sleep on the workbench, preferably on fresh rolled slabs of clay. I have been thinking of incorporating a cat paw design in my work. | also have a rumning commentary going with Peter Gzowski. He is my Canada 101 course. It may sound surprising but I found Canada to be quite a culture shock when I moved here three years ago from England via almost 20 years in Hong Kong. Peter helps me to understand a politics, economics, ethics and way

The following is my list of New Year's Resolutions to help me become a little more structured and organized.

1. I will not leave everything to the last minute and start on orders two weeks before delivery. [ will start working right away, on January 3rd (having two days off to recover from the New Year) and have enough stock for all the Christmas sales by the end of August.

2. I will put a new glaze test into every kiln, and keep rigorous notes of all glaze tests,

3. I will also keep notes of what went into the garbage glaze which so often turns out. to be a brilliant glaze that can never be repeated.

4. I will wedge and weigh out all my throwing clay the evening before.

5. I will not try to throw or trim pots with a hangover.

6. I will not sneak off to Lonsdale Guay or Granville Island on a nice sunny day and sit