felt that such harmony is more readily achieved by using the subdued colour range of stoneware glazes where the demarcation between clay and glaze is subtle; where the two are married; where the glaze brings out the surface and grain of clay in much the same way as oil accentuates the grain of wood, and where the clay itself strongly influences the colour and quality of the glaze. By contrast, glazes on earthenware tend to remain as distinct, separate layers - to continue the analogy, the difference between painted wood and oiled wood.

In summary, if we accept the proposition that strong colour will tend to dominate a pot, then it is difficult to strike the harmonious balance that we have promulgated. Perhaps we should add that the ideas expressed in this editorial are not new concepts. They re-state an aesthetic that has concerned Western potters over the past fifty years or so and Oriental potters for hundreds of years. Possibly we are moving towards an era of more painterly pots, spurred on by the impact of "pop art". It would also seem that demarcation: between "craft", sculpture and painting are becoming more and more blurred.

a Qe ditor

* Canadian Guild of Potters Newsletter - September 1966 *

There is a feeling that the nature of a national workshop should be to make available to the members as much as possible of the knowledge of the specialist conducting the workshop. In many ways this is not achieved when a person of diverse talents is explaining the broad nature of his approach, All too often, although the workshop is re- freshing and stimulating, the details are lost. To this end we

would like to begin a library of slides, film and tape covering these and related subjects. If this idea interests you or your group, would you please write and let us know, as it would be foolish to embark on such a project unless there was sufficient interest. I mention this partly to reassure members who were perhaps a little apprehensive that we were going to put a finger on the individual and say "Your glazes or your life!" or some such indelicate demand. Nothing like that was planned but the Guild should be a medium of collaboration

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