We got down and dirty, we had plaster on our hands and luckily no disasters on the floor! So everyone was able to take a mould home if not two, with enough experience to make more. Not
only did we make press moulds, but we utilised our time and scraps to make stamps and sprigs.
Students were pleasantly surprised by how much detail is picked up of the model. Everyone had a productive and very enjoyable time.
As our membership expands, so too does the workload. When you filled in your subscription renewal form, you will have noticed we asked you how you are able to help us. We hope you will consider giving something of your time, knowledge and skills. As a voluntary organisation, we depend on the good will of our membership to keep things running. If you didn’t return the form, please email it to us, or just email the club to let us know how you can help.
Newsletter Editor – Someone to organise, edit and lay out our quarterly newsletter.
Grants Applications – We’re also looking for someone with experience or interest in grant applications to support the purchasing of new equipment and resources for the club.
If you’re interested or know someone who is, please get in touch by emailing canterburypotters@gmmail.com with ‘Help Wanted’ in the subject header.
Relatively new to our December calendar, this has become a successful event to promote the club and the craft in Christchurch. For a modest fee, potters can set up a stall under the trees in our lovely reserve, to sell their work.
Buy local and handmade this Christmas from established and emerging Canterbury potters under the trees at the Avice Hill Reserve. Practical, arty, unique, decorative and different. Whether you are looking for that perfect mug or soup bowl, a little something for the teacher, a dramatic statement piece for indoors or out, an interesting piece to fill that difficult spot, or anything in between, you can come and buy it here, direct from the artist who created it.
We are delighted to announce that potter/artist Darryl Frost has accepted our invitation to be this year’s selector and gues exhibitor for our annual exhibition. He is a respected artist in steel, stone, glass and ceramic, working from his gallery and workspace, Frost & Fire in Tasman, near Nelson, where he operates two anagama kilns.