Richard mahaffey on tue 11 may 99
R, Jack,
Did I miss it? I found no mention as to where the Leach Tradition
connection is in your workshop post. I met Lynn Munns some years ago, a
great guy. Heard the same about Joe. Still don't know about the leach
connection.
Just wondering,
Rick Mahaffey
R. Jack Mcclennen on wed 12 may 99
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>R, Jack,
>
>Did I miss it? I found no mention as to where the Leach Tradition
>connection is in your workshop post. I met Lynn Munns some years ago, a
>great guy. Heard the same about Joe. Still don't know about the leach
>connection.
>
>Just wondering,
>
>Rick Mahaffey
Hi Rick,
Both Lynn and Joe throw on Leach style treadle wheel and subscribe to the
functional philosophy of the Leach tradition. If you have the resources to
see both Lynn and Joe's work it is straight forward function pottery that
is magical.
May potters throw nice simple functional form but few have the spirital
insight that both Lynn and Joe instill in their work. The dynamics of this
workshop is for the particpants to come understand this spirital connection
and apply it to your individual voice in functional pottery.
"Very few people in this country think of the making of pottery as an art,
and amongst those few the great majority have no criterion of aesthetic
values which would enable them to distinguish between the genuinely good
and the meretricious. Even more unfortunate is position of the average
potter, who without some standard of fitiness and beauty derived from
tradition can not be expected to produce, not necessarily masterpieces, but
even entrinsically sound work"
Bernard Leach, The Potters Book, Chapter 1, Towards a Standard, paragraph one.
Rick I hope this helps and would love to have you at our workshop.
Thank you for bring it to my attention.
Regards, Jack
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