Editors Note: The BCPG communications committee apologizes for putting the wrong text with Jeannie Mal's image in the June issue. For July and
August we are reprinting text and image with the relevant presenters. Both Jeannie and Dianne Creber will be featured at the next Clay Symposium
at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in March 2007. Look for information on other presenters in upcoming issues of BC Potters.

(This was mistakenly run last month as Jeannie Mah’s statement)
Canadian Clay Symposium
March 24th, 2007

Presenter Profiles

Dianne Creber

I have been a full-time studio
potter for over 30 years work-
ing exclusively in porcelain
making one-of-a-kind and
production items. Together
with my husband Tim De
Rose, a potter and painter, we
operate Wilton Pottery in an
old limestone schoolhouse
near Kingston, Ontario.

I approach the glazing of
porcelain in a painterly man-
ner, using many glazes and
colours. My work ranges from multi-coloured plates and bowls, to sinks,
teapots, and a complete range of dinnerware items.

Since 1976 I have been working with crystalline glazes. Finding there was very
little written information on the process, I applied for and received a grant to
research these glazes. The material was the basis for a book called Crystalline
Glazes, published in 1997 by A & C Black, London, England and the
University of Pennsylvania Press, USA. This was the first book written exclu-
sively about crystalline glazes. In the spring of 2005, the second edition of
Crystalline Glazes was published.

I have taken part in numerous shows, symposiums and pottery events across
Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe. I was the guest speaker at the International
Exhibition of Crystalline Ceramics in Vallauris, France (2005) and Lattice
Structures in Kansas City, U.S.A. (2005).

One of the things I enjoy most about being a potter is being able to control
what I produce. I make the clay or have it made for me, design and make the
item, glaze and decorate it and then sell it from my studio showroom. This is
both a responsibility and a freedom, which keeps my career interesting and
challenging.

For the Canadian Clay Symposium on March 24, 2007, 1 will be doing

a digital slide presentation on the History of Crystalline Glazes. I will be

showing slides of historical pieces collected from museums and art gal-

leries from dating 1855 (when crystalline glazes were first discovered) to

the present day In my collection I have several slides showing the work of

Adelaide Robineau (1865-1929) one of the pioneers of this glaze process.

I also have a collection of the work of contemporary crystalline glaze pot-

ters from around the world and several shows where this work has been

displayed.

Dianne Creber

4 Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter July/August 2006