I understand some of the B.C. potters membership visited Frank Poll
this summer and some of you caught me in my Pinehill Shop between
teaching jobs. Now it's about time to close the summer shop door and
get on to the wheel in all seriousness to produce pots and limber up for
the next batch of winter nightschool classes.

Good potting.
Frances Hatfield

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Gerry Weld sends news of two sculptors:
Mrs Seer Burchett's knowledge of dogs and her experience in showing
, has om. of modelling her own animals, to specialized
work for the Kennel Clubs which want exact replicas of champion dogs
down to the last wrinkle. The moulds for this work are very complicateu
(as much as seventeen pieces) and Mrs Burchett would like to find a pro-
fessional mould maker to relieve her of this task. Mrs Burchett does not
work from photographs but prefers to make quick clay sketches at the
kennels. She makes her own glazes which must be applied carefully in
order not to lose minute detail. She was recently commissioned to

design a six foot aluminum sculpture of a salmon for the Alexandria
Bridge beyond Yale.

Mr. J.C, S, Wilkinson has resigned from his position as Staff Artist in the
cts Branc the Public Works and says he just wants to paint,
sculpt and teach, He is currently working on a family group whose adult
figures are eight feet high, at the back of his new studio on Oak Bay
Avenue. Student work will be cast in aluminum, bronze or fibreglass.
As B, C, Staff Artist, Mr. Wilkinson's paintings and sculpture are in many
government buildings as well as private collections. The new Provincial
Government building at Quesnel has installed a sculptured screen of his
design. Cast in aluminum, it covers seven hundred and fifty feet at each
end of the building and is illuminated from the base. He has also com-
pleted an eight foot "Figure of Justice" for Quesnel. In Victoria's
Centennial Square, his three-sided, sculptured column for the fountain
symbolizes human growth toward maturity and wisdom. There are plans

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