Gavin Stairs on fri 13 jun 97
At 07:14 PM 12/06/97 EDT, Veronica wrote:
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>If any of the others at this workshop, or some of the others John has given
>on this tour, can remember other things to add to this resume - I hope you
will.
....
Veronica, in Toronto he also showed a video of Isaac Button, one of the
last of the journeyman potters of England. What an example of facility in
all aspects of claywork! If you ever get a chance to see this film, do so!
It is really priceless.
And I second all the rest. John is wonderfully warm and honest. His best
pokes are aimed at himself, for the better instruction of we students.
John's best lesson is himself, I think. He is an artist potter by trade.
He produces wonderfully expressive and well found pots from a traditional
base which is stuck in the very clay which he dug to make his pond. I mean
the native earth of his place, not that he uses it for a body, which he
does not. He perhaps exemplifies the potter ideal to which his grandfather
and Hamada and the others aspired. He is withall a humble man, and content
to make his pots, and to do his annual tours. Long may he prosper. If you
get the chance, go see him.
Gavin
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Gavin Stairs
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