EDITOR

Your editor would like to hear the news of potters groups around B.C. Please send your items to the Newsletter at theGGuild office. 11 items for the November Newsletter should be at the office by October 27th.

Anne Fleetham

October 1986 ISSN 6319 812X

Published by The Potters Guild of British Columbia, 1359 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3R7.

Editor: Anne Fleetham Mailing: Marianne Garbsch, Savita Kashatrya. Contributors: Jan Jorgenson, David Zawaduk, Elaine Futterman.

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Cover: Earthenware vase, "FLORABUNDANT: NEW WORKS IN EARTHENWARE" by

Graeme Allemeersch till October 12th at The Gallery of B.C. Ceramics. Graeme's works have been shown extensively on both coasts, a graduate

of The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, he now lives and works in Vancouver.

“By using strong, simple forms with a decoration that activates the surface, I try to unify the form and decoration in a way that imparts a feeling of joy and movement to the work. (as well as a large dash of humour), "

Graeme Allemeersch

LETTERS }

Report From A M.1.5.5.A. - fit

The T - shirts say "I'm a MISSA-fit," MISSA meaning Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts. Was it two weeks of art school, a chemistry lab, Summer Camp, or help and advice from Robin Hopper? It was an interesting conglomeration of all these things. It was, of course, Robin's course on "Glaze and Colour Development." Fiftean of us - from as far east as Quebec and as far south as the Mojave Desert in California, turned out more than 6000 glaze tests! We worked day and night, weighing and stirring, in between

trips to studios, the Victoria Art Gallery, Fernie Farm (afternoon tea‘), Chamber Music, Poetry Readings, slide shows, tennis, swimming, canoeing, lectures, and videos. You can imagine the fun we had. What you can't imagine is the amount of information, the stimulation, and the ideas for further work and glaze testing that we went away with. Thanks Robin.

Elaine Futterman

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