This newsletter, edited by Heather Strong, includes:
Editorial by Heather Strong
Chairman’s Letter from Doreen Gardner
List of Regional Editors Tony Smither (South Devon), Joanne Richards (Central Somerset), Frank Goddard (South Somerset), Andrew Bryden (North Somerset)
List of Festival Jobs for Bickleigh
Exhibition News From Anita Peach, including:
East Meets West
Portfolio News
Report by Joanne Richards, Activities Officer, including:
Christmas Party 2000
Forthcoming Demonstration by Nancy Wells at The Old School Pottery
Forthcoming Workshop Visit with Doreen Gardner and Tony Smither at Orchard Pottery
Bickleigh Pottery Festival
Potters’ Tips from Mole Cottage by Mark Donaldson
WPA Website request by Doreen Gardner
Resignation Notice of Mark and Pauline Donaldson from WPA Committee: Festival Organiser and Activities Officer
Advert for Workshop Tuition in Pottery and Ceramics
Advert to sell Podmores sit-on kick wheel £225 o.n.o. by Nancy Wells
Welcome to New Members
Pots and Portraits from Marion Valder
Report on Various Visits, by Joanne Richards, including:
Ceramic Contemporaries
An Intervention by Edmund de Waal at High Cross House
Kate Malone’s New Ceramics entitles The Allotment at The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Earth Marks and Birth Works by Alan and Amanda Wallwork
Ashley Howard Demonstration Day by Caroline Saunders
Christmas Sale Invitation to Trelowarren Pottery by Nic and Jackie Harrison
New Work by Marion Valder and Kati Va’mos
Artists’ Open Day with Ceramics by Anita Peach and Linda Clark
Svend Bayer’s sale at Duckpool Cottage, Beaworthy
Items of Interest to Potters, including:
CPA Earth and Fire 6
Calling all Saltglaze Potters! by Rosemary Cochrane
The STRAW Project (Skills Training and Rural Art Week)
The 2000 International Orton Cone Box Show
Art in Clay 2000, including a WPA Display
Cranford Barn Glazes by Roger Harris
Forthcoming Exhibitions by Joanne Richards
Advertisements:
Refurbished Pottery Equipment from Bates Electrical
Stow Potters Wheels, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Kiln Furniture Supplies from Walter Brayford
Haughton Hare Pottery Supplies, Bickleigh, Tiverton
Creative Pottery Breaks with Moley (Mark Donaldson)
Valentine Clay Products
Don Keitch Kiln Repairs, Clyst Hydon, near Collumpton
Les Bainbridge Pottery Supplies
The Potters Connection Ltd
Committee December 1999 including Chairman Doreen Gardner, Secretary Mary Sutton, Treasurer Alan Clark, Exhibition Officer Anita Peach, Publicity Officer Claire Winterton, Membership Secretary Lesley Cooper, Activities Officer and Minuting Secretary Joanne Richards, Newsletter Editor Heather Strong