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Tracy, from Shona's Wed am class, with her bisque fired ware ready for glazing.  We have another busy two months ahead with lots of activities that we hope you’ll share with us.
CLUB DAYS & CLUB NIGHTS Club Days are on Tuesdays, 10am to 3.30pm and 7 to 9pm. Club Demonstration Nights are on the second Tuesday of every month. Saturday club day, 1st Saturday of the month, 10.00 am till noon (beginning July 2nd) For those of you who are gainfully employed outside the home, Anne Goddard is intending to have a club day on the first Saturday of the month. Anyone wishing to join her is welcome. She will put a notice on our Face book page. Also, Leigh-Ann Smith is intending to start a Raku group that would meet and carry out their firings on this day, too. Leigh-Ann is interested in exploring the wide range of raku glazes and would like others who are interested to join her on. RAKU DAY Sat 14th July, bisque firing put pots on the shelf labelled Raku bisque please. Engobe workshop, 7th July, 10.00am to 4.00pm Bookings taken now $50 pay on line or bring on the day Mt pleasant Pottery. Westpac 03 1591 0083454 00 Therefore, we recommend pre-booking your place; details are on the website http://www.mtpleasantpottery.org.nz Use ‘Engobe’ as your reference, please. Slip/Engobe Workshop with Renate, Saturday, 7 July, 10 am to 4 pm We will start by making our own slips. Basic white clay slurry and additives will be supplied. You will only need to purchase clay stains. Renate will have all basic colours available. Share some colours with a friend. If you have your own stains, please bring them along. Next we will use our tiles. With paintbrushes and slip trailers, stamps or stencils we will experiment and test a wide variety of application techniques. Renate will give assistance and demonstrations as required, painting, slip trailing, sgraffito, latex/wax resist, printing or stencil resist. With the experience from working on your tiles you will chose and develop your own designs that suit your pots, taste and skills and abilities. Bring: Jars (with well closing lids) for the slips
Some paint brushes and slip trailer will be provided. For more information please ring Renate: 388 64 80, 021-1336620 rgaletzka@gmail.com THIS IS A MUST IF YOU LIKE DECORATING; ENROLMENTS before SAT 28TH CLUB WOOD FIRING: bisque firing on 3rd July Please have pots at the rooms on club day or night with name for firing thanks. CLUB NIGHT 10th July Please bring you pots for glazing for wood firing at Halswell Shona is making a shino and celadon glaze for this firing and will be testing the glazes at the end of May, joining a Halswell club firing. For those interested in participating in this firing method please email so we know what the numbers are, then bring your bisque ware (no bowls or plates) to the rooms on Tuesday 10th July for glazing. Members participating should be prepared to spend some time, a weekend sawing and gathering the wood for on-the-day, assisting with firing and wood (fuel) preparation. Kick off to be notified sometime at the end of June http://www.mtpleasantpottery.org.nz use “wood firing” as your reference, please Children’s July holiday class 10 to 16 year olds No Charge Check out the Club Programme in Club News Page and Diary Page for details on upcoming events: we’re planning a soup night in September, 11th; we will use the Hub pizza oven to bake some bread to accompany the soup. We will be booking the Hub pizza oven for our Christmas function on December 11th. Pottery Club Programme for 2018 June to December CLUB DAYS & CLUB NIGHTS Club Days are on Tuesdays, 10am to 3.30pm and 7 to 9pm. Club Demonstration Nights are on the second Tuesday of every month. We are hosting guest speakers and demonstrators who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics relating to pottery and ceramics. To compensate our guests we will pass around a register and ‘hat’ for your contribution. To get most out of our Demonstration Club Nights please get in contact and let me know which topics you would like to know more about. I will try and make it happen! Renate 021-1336620, rgaletzka@gmail.com Weekend Schools Due to interest we will be reintroducing a number of weekend or one day workshops throughout the year. Please let me know what your interests are and I’ll make that happen too 😊 July Saturday 7th, 10am to 4 pm One day workshop Slip/Engobe making, experimenting and decorating workshop with Renate We will make our own Enrobes, experiment with a variety of different decorating techniques on test tiles and decorate our own prepared, raw bowls. Tuesday, 3rd club bisque for wood firing & Raku Club night, Tuesday 10th, 7 pm Wood firing, glazing and discussion of glazing pots for the wood firing sharing with Halswell potters on Saturday 28 July August Club night: Tuesday 14th, 7pm Stamp/sprig making, a hands on mini workshop with Nikki Wallace-Bell September Tuesday 11th, 7pm bowl and soup night, please bring along a bowl to swap, 2 magical and flavoursome soups will be prepared by our pottery chefs. October Club night: Tuesday 9th, 7pm Glazing techniques How to use our spray gun with introductions by Ken Dipping Glazes – Pot preparation, waxing, dipping techniques with and without tongs with Renate Weekend/3 half day workshop. Glaze making with Andrew Carran.. Details to be confirmed November Club night: Tuesday, 13th, AGM December Club night, Tuesday, 11th, End of year party Committee for 2018 Chairman.........needed..... Secretary Shona Clarkson mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Treasurer Ken Doidge doidge.ken@gmail.com Newsletter and web manager Graham Maguire gjmaguire@xtra.co.nz Household and maintenance Lorraine (Rudi) Jansen rblanjan@xtra.co.nz Club day roster Bill Bromley Bromleybill@hotmail.com Minute secretary Brenda Benge brendabenge@outlook.co.nz Face book manager Anne Goddard ann.goddard@yahoo.fr Advertising & Raku co-ordinator Leigh-Ann Brown leigh-ann.obrien@gib.co.nz Allan Mauger alinos@outlook.co.nz What a great night. Mary Lou Foate – creates her works of art by a variety of different methods. Mary Lou lovingly creates these unique, whimsical, adorable and very individual pieces of art: miniature sculptures, plaques, brooches, coasters… by using found tools from nature or the kitchen draw. The first method she showed us was by drawing an outline in the clay and then pressing areas away this leaves the main focus, normally the face at a more defined level. She marks the back ground using a whole assortment of objects, e.g. pens and screws . Mary Lou lets the clay define the work, and never forces the result. Another method is to add base shapes to the outside of a pot / plate and then press them into the pot. She can mark these shapes before and after pressing them and loves the way that pressing the object distorts the figure. This method she uses for her house tiles and her fish plates. She also builds on pinch pots making them into figurines. Her glazing was amazing. She uses several different methods; She will often put on a base colour (Waikato blue glaze) and then sponges this off giving wonderful depth to her detailed work. She combines both clear glaze on top and under colour; no particular glaze on her faces and colours mixed with ball clay (for a matt effect). Recently she has done some work with BRT clay and added Raku white animals, pressing them in. A very inspiring and creative evening. Sunday 24 June celebrating Matariki at the Hub 11am to 2pm there will be stone carving, a Hangi, face painting and a bouncy castle for the younger children , we will have tiles for the public to carve come and see what goes on when we are not potting.
Engobe workshop, 7th July, 10.00am to 4.00pm There was plenty of interest expressed when Renate did her demonstration night on engobes and to give participants the best opportunity to learn as much as possible from Renate, there will be a limited number of positions available. Therefore, we recommend pre-booking your place; details are on the website http://www.mtpleasantpottery.org.nz Use ‘engobe’ as your reference, please. Wood firing, 28th July, at Halswell Pottery rooms Shona is making a shino and celadon glaze for this firing and will be testing the glazes in their woodfiring at the end of May. A joint Halswell club woodfiring firing. For those interested in participating in this firing method, please register your interest on the web site use "wood firing" as your reference, bring your bisque ware (no bowls or plates) to the rooms on Tuesday 10th July for glazing. Members participating should be prepared to spend some time, on the day, assisting with firing and wood (fuel) preparation. Kick off to be confirmed. Saturday club day, 1st Saturday of the month,June 2nd 10.00am till noon starting Saturday 2 June For those of you who are gainfully employed outside the home, Anne Goddard is intending to have a club day on the first Saturday of the month. Anyone wishing to join her is welcome anne.goddard@yaho.fr. She will put a notice on our Facebook page. Also, Leigh-Ann Smith is intending to start a Raku group that would meet and carry out their firings on this day, too. Leigh-Ann is interested in exploring the wide range of raku glazes and would like others who are interested to join her leigh-ann.obrien@gib.co.nz Check out the Club Programme in Club News Page and Diary Page for details on up coming events: we’re planning a soup night in September, 11th; we have booked the pizza oven to bake some bread to accompany the soup. the Hub pizza oven is booked for for our Christmas function on December 11th. Slip/Engobe Workshop with Renate, Saturday, 7 July, 10 am to 4 pm.
We will start by making our own slips. Basic white clay slurry and additives will be supplied. You will only need to purchase clay stains. Renate will have all basic colours available. Share some colours with a friend. If you have your own stains, please bring them along. Next we will use our tiles. With paintbrushes and slip trailers, stamps or stencils we will experiment and test a wide variety of application techniques. Renate will give assistance and demonstrations as required, painting, slip trailing, scraffito, latex/wax resist, printing or stencil resist. With the experience from working on your tiles you will chose and develop your own designs that suit your pots, taste and skills and abilities Bring:
People who would like to learn about engobes but don't wish, at this stage, to make their own are very welcome to participate. There will be no extra expense. Some paint brushes and slip trailer will be provided. For more information please ring Renate: 388 64 80, 021-1336620, or email rgaletzka@gmail.com May 8th at 7 pm Special General Meeting
We need you to help change our constitution! This needed to be changed when we have moved to Phillipstown and all that is required of you is to read the remits, which were sent to you last month and vote on the changes; simple as. We need a quorum of 16 to be able to legally pass these changes. Wood Firing We have the opportunity to wood fire with Halswell potters group in July 28.This is a wood kiln where we keep putting wood in the kiln and monitor it for about 8 hours. I will bring along some samples and discuss the wood firing techniques and the build up to loading the kiln etc. If you are interested please come along, vote and discuss taking part in a different type of firing. Club days. Tuesday 10.00am to 3.00pm: you can carry on into the night session with Ken.This means you have all day to play with clay. You may also arrange with Shona, after her class on Wednesday, to play until 4.00pm when the hub closes. The rooms are usually open during week days when the hub is open. First Saturday of the month: Anne is opening the rooms; if you would like to take part check her out on Mt Pleasant face book or email anne.goddard@yahoo.fr. Photographing your work for our web site: please bring along some of your work on club days so Graham Maguire gjmaguire@xtra.co.nz can take photos to put on the web site. It is looking rather good. All our information is there for you to see what going on in the club. See you on May 8 at 7pm SUBS ARE NOW OVERDUE please pay direct credit to Mt pleasant pottery Westpac 03 1591 008345400 many thanks MP Pottery Club Programme CLUB DAYS & CLUB NIGHTS Club Days are on Tuesdays, 10am to 3.30pm and 7 to 9pm. Club Demonstration Nights are on the second Tuesday of every month. We are hosting guest speakers and demonstrators who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics relating to pottery and ceramics. A Gold coin or note donation please. To get most out of our Demonstration Club Nights please get in contact and let me know which topics you would like to know more about. I will try and make it happen! Renate 021-1336620, rgaletzka@gmail.com Weekend Schools Due to interest we will be reintroducing a number of weekend or one day workshops throughout the year. Please let me know what your interests are and I’ll make that happen too 😊 Program May Tuesday 8th, 7pm Special Meeting Please attend as this important meeting to progress our club! There’s no pressure to the individual member, you are just required to vote. Please see details attached to the email June Tuesday 12th, 7pm Club night with Mary Lou Foate Mary Lou lovingly creates these unique, whimsical, adorable and very individual pieces of art: miniature sculptures, plaques, brooches, coasters… by using tools found from nature or the kitchen draw. A very inspiring, creative and must attend evening. July Saturday, 7th, 10am to 4 pm One day workshop Slip/Engobe making, experimenting and decorating workshop with Renate We will make our own Engobe, experiment with a variety of different decorating techniques on test tiles and decorate our own prepared, raw bowl Enrolments to mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Committee for 2018 Chairman.........needed..... Secretary Shona Clarkson mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Treasurer Ken Doidge doidge.ken@gmail.com Newsletter and web manager Graham Maguire gjmaguire@xtra.co.nz Household and maintenance Lorraine (Rudi) Jansen rblanjan@xtra.co.nz Club day roster Bill Bromley Bromleybill@hotmail.com Minute secretary Brenda Benge brendabenge@outlook.co.nz Face book manager Anne Goddard anne.goddard@yaho.fr Allan Mauger alinos@outlook.co.nz Slip/Engobe demonstration By RenateWe witnessed a wonderful demonstration of engobe decoration by Renate Galetzka on Tuesday evening, 10th April. Renate was born in Germany and was on her OE in the 1980's when she met a Kiwi chap (and married him); she says she is still on her OE. As part of her travels she discovered the art of ceramics; she took classes, worked for one of NZ pottery's great dames, Frederika Ersten and gained her Trade Certificate in Pottery. The traditional Swiss mountain engobe decorated earthenware became an interest; from this Renate has developed her own designs and style producing wonderfully coloured pieces. In New Zealand we tend to use the word 'slip' for a clay slurry wether it is natural or coloured, however engobe is the word for any coloured slip. To make an engobe to Renate's specifications we will be making our own engobes in the upcoming workshop, at the start of July, where Renate will elaborate in more detail on the recipe, do's and don'ts and tips of the trade regarding making, using and decorating with engobes. Keep an eye out for details Some techniques that Renate has developed are; select good brushes that hold a good amount of engobe and use one brush per colour (this prevents altering the colour onto the pot. Pots should be leather hard; from her demonstration this showed an excellent uptake of the engobe by the pot. When beginning to decorate your work, start with the outside first, the inside next and the rim is last. Use ones free hand to steady the hand with the brush (see this in all the photo's) Renate's inspiration for her decoration designs comes from Dr Seuss and from her daughter's time as a circus trapeze artist. A five sided vase was produced and Renate proceeded to demonstrate some of the techniques that may be used to get an engobe decoration design onto a pot: paper resist, where a cut-out pattern of some paper provides a profile, sponging either randomly or in a pattern, drawing/dotting with a slip trailer (produces a texture as well) and sgraffito. After bisque firing the pieces are glazed with a clear glaze. Renate's demonstration showed us what we can all produce pieces of beauty and interest using the techniques that she uses. It may take us a little longer but we can enjoy the process in the meantime. Thank Renate. Hi potters, just a note or two on the happenings around our club and the Canterbury area, Club news first: You will have seen our new raku area outside our rooms this will be used this week for the Wednesday am class Raku a good trial for our next club raku. Tuesday club night, 10 April at 7.00pm Renate will demonstrate how to use slip (with a further slip workshop in June) Slip/Engobe demonstration evening Making, use and application of colour slips Renate will demonstrate how she makes her slips, how to achieve different outcomes and what huge choice of application options there are. Just to mention a few; slip trailing, stamping, sgraffito and wax/paper resist. There will be a favourite for everybody. This evening will be in preparation for a one day workshop in June, where participants will make their own slips/Engobe (to take home), try out different application techniques and find their favourite one. Next club night May 8th starting 7.00pm will be our special meeting, you will have received your constitution with amendments. Please attend as this is important to the progress of our club; no pressure just to vote. Our website and face book are very active; check them out as this is now our means of communicating with everyone. Monday & Wednesday am and pm classes are very popular; if you are in one of those classes and wish to continue next term please send your enrolment for the 2nd term as preference is given to existing students mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Please pay direct credit Mt Pleasant pottery account: 03 1591 0083454 00 with name and class. The fee is $120. SUBS are overdue. This will be your last newsletter if you're not a financial member. Please pay $45 direct credit with name & subs; many thanks. School holiday classes: 2 sessions in the first week for 12 to 16 year olds, Monday 16th, Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th, 10.00am to 12.00 noon and 1.00pm to 3.00pm. A glazing day will be the last Friday of the holidays 27th, 10.00am to 11.00 and 12.00 to 1.00pm. Bookings to mtpleasant@gmail.com As this is a sponsored class there will be no charge Bring along a old shirt and towel. There are 8 students to a class which is a good number to play and learn about clay. Open day at the hub a week ago, where the tiles the group made, looked beautiful on the pizza oven and blend in with the overall area. Have a look when you are next at the hub. Good team work. Canterbury News
Ben Carter is coming in May. The NZ Potters newsletter with information was sent in a separate email (Sun 1st April). On Friday 11th May, at Halswell Potters, will be a one day workshop; contact halswellpotters@gmail.com Canterbury Potters have Ben on Sat and Sun 12th &13th May; contact Canterburypotters@gmail.com for their 2 day workshop. Contact either club if you are interested in attending these workshop; it is not often we get potters of his experience in New Zealand. Any queries please contact your committee Mtpleasant@gmail.com March Club Night - Tuscany, Italy with Eve Hope After viewing some of Eve’s platters, bowls and cups from her collection from Rampini Ceramiche she proceeded to demonstrate her decoration technique on one of her casserole dishes. Eve, who has a fine arts degree from UoC, left her job in Auckland in 1992 for 2 months and travelled to Italy to help a her cousin who had opened a restaurant in the Tuscan countryside just south of Florence. Whilst there she was introduced to the Rampini Family who had established a pottery studio close to where she was staying. As Eve has always had an interest in colour and designs of Italian maiolica she could not resist asking if she might try her hand at decorating. Eve admits her early work was a little shaky but was not too long before she felt confident enough to begin exploring the colours and experimenting with new designs. She is grateful to the Rampini family for their open acceptance to having a Kiwi designing and decorating Italian ceramics. Their friendship and collaboration worked so well Eve gave up her job in NZ remained as their principle designer until 2008. Her developed skill was on display for us to see and enjoy at our club night. The casserole dish and lid had an external white, tin glaze. The under-glaze stains were in powdered form; Eve mixed them with water to a formula. She also colour mixed to create just the right hue. Her brushes are from Pelo di Bue, bought from Italy, those used for outlining have been specifically cut and shaped for the job and are used by most Maiolica pottery studios in Italy and we all admired the wonderful marks she made with them. Interestingly, the clay of the dish, the stains and glazes are different from those that are used in Tuscany, so we await in anticipation for their exit from the kiln. We’ll let you know.  Thank you, Eve, for the demonstration of your skill and some insights into your time in Italy.
Hi potters, just an update of where the club is this month. Our web site is up and running at last, please check us out. We will have all our information there; what is planned for the rest of the term and who is teaching. This will become our main contact; we also use our Facebook page (don't forget to 'like' us!). Quite an achievement for us with a small working committee. The constitution has been re-written; this will be checked out soon and we will call a special general meeting to pass these amendments. Contact mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com for a copy. I hope you will support us by being at the meeting as a quorum of 16 is required. The date is yet to be confirmed. Club night: (Second Tuesday of April), 10th April at 7pm Eve Hope will discus her experiences working in Italy at a majolica studio/factory. Eve will give us an idea how the pieces were made and will have some samples of their work. It will be interesting to hear what working in a controlled workshop is really like. Hub interest day is Friday 23rd March; come and see what is going on at the hub. The potters have made tiles for the pizza oven surround; these will be fixed to the base soon. They have been made by some of the groups in the hub and we have just made another seven to complete the surround. The raku area is under construction in front of the rooms. This will be a small safe area for raku firing. The burner is fixed, so we just need to pick a saturday in April for firing? Anyone interested contact us mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Wood firing: we can share the wood kiln at Halswell for a combined firing for anyone interested in June/July. A little work will be involve stacking and chopping of wood, also a roster of morning & afternoon stoking. Perhaps a Tuesday night discussion on what is expected in a wood firing, some time in May would be good. Everyone who is interested please contact us at mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Subs are due; if you have received a friendly reminder to pay, please pay; if not and you haven’t paid, please pay and advise and also, if not, many thanks to those who have responded. It makes the running of the group a lot easier (it’s about cash-flow). Kiln firings are hotting up (boom boom); if you would like your work fired, contact us and we will arrange a time that is suitable for you and to help you load the kiln. The last two weeks before classes finish, the kilns are booked for students only. The dates are Monday 2nd to Friday 13th April. Prepare your work before or after these dates, please. I (Shona) spent a very pleasant two hours, two weeks ago, at Canterbury potters learning to repair broken pottery by Kintsugi (meaning connecting things). One of my earlier works, a toilet roll cylinder, broke and it had been sitting for a while (five yrs), this opportunity came up and now I have a gold masterpiece! Welcome to our new students and members, we hope you enjoy our group. Any questions: please email us and we will endeavour to answer them. Cheers - Your Committee  Classes will be starting with two new tutors, Monday pm 12th Feb. with Allan Mauger, Wednesday 14th, pm with Michael Michaels, both experienced potters. Wednesday 14th, am with Shona Clarkson, classes are filling up if you have booked and not paid please contact Shona as you will be now on the waiting list for next term. Welcome to all our new class members. Subs are now due $45 please pay direct banking Mt Pleasant Pottery Westpac, 03 1591 0083454 00 please write your name as reference. Brochure included for ease of renewing subs. email return to mt pleasant pottery group. We had a great cleanup day on January 27th, we cleaned the garden outside ready to put down gravel to make it a permanent raku area, and inside all nice and tidy for the year thank you to the 10 who attended we appreciate your cleaning skills.
Web site will be up and running very soon, we would like our members to bring along one or two pieces of their work on Tuesday 13 club day for photographing; this will be on our website gallery showing our work to the public. Size of the work.name and any other information would be helpful. It doesn’t have to be an exhibition piece, one that you like and are proud of. If Tuesday is not suitable we will make a Saturday available. This will be on going for a month or two until we have a picture gallery on show. Club night’s demonstrations for this term starting with Andrew Carron on Tuesday 13 at 7pm "Everything melts-- glaze materials in your own back yard" First get together of the year with Question time on glaze materials, chemicals, glaze ingredients, etc with keen potter and retired soil scientist Andrew Curran. I believe Andrew has made glaze with soil from his veggie patch! Andrew will have lots to share and show. With his knowledge and analytical mind every glaze problem can be solved. This is a great opportunity for newbie’s and old hands alike. Bring your questions, samples, pen and paper. $5 for club members and $10 for non members all welcome. CLUB DAYS & CLUB NIGHTS Club Days are on Tuesdays, 10am to 3.30pm and 7 to 9pm. Club day charges are $5 for a full day $2.50 half day. This keeps the electrical equipment running for your pleasure. Club Demonstration Nights are on the second Tuesday of every month. We are hosting guest speakers and demonstrators who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics relating to pottery and ceramics. We would appreciate a $5 donation for the nights demonstration please. To get most out of our Demonstration Club Nights please get in contact and let me know which topics you would like to know more about. I will try and make it happen! Renate 021-1336620, rgaletzka@gmail.com Weekend Schools Due to interest we will be reintroducing a number of weekend or one day workshops throughout the year. Please let me know what your interests are and I’ll make that happen too 😊 Programme 2018 February Tuesday 13th, 7pm Feldspar, Lead, Cobalt Oxide… What? First get together of the year with Question Time on Glaze materials, chemicals, glaze ingrediences etc with keen potter and retired soil scientist Andrew Curran Bring your questions, samples, pen and paper March Tuesday 13th, 7pm Majolica Decoration with Eve Hope Eve worked in a Majolica decorating pottery in Italy, how cool is that! Eve will talk to us on how they applied the majolica glaze and decorated their ware. April Weekend/one day workshop Slip/Engobe workshop Making use and application of colour slips May Tuesday 8th, 7pm Special Group Meeting to authorise changes to our constitution. June Tuesday 8th, 7.00pm July Saturday 7th, 10.00am Engobe workshop with Renate, $50.00. More details in Club News. Tuesday 10th, 7.00pm Saturday 28th, Halswell Club for a wood firing. August Tuesday14th, 7.00pm Nikki to demonstrate stamp and sprig making. September Tuesday 11th, 7.00pm October Tuesday 9th, 7.00pm Saturday workshop to demonstrate the best/correct use of our glaze spraying equipment and booth. (date to be confirmed) November Tuesday 13th, 7.00pm AGM Phillipstown hub open day all welcome Friday 2nd March 10 to 2pm all welcome come and have a look and see what is going on there might be something for you the potters will be open. Ben carter is coming this is a must on your potting calendar keep the dates booked May 11.12.13 a weekend workshop times, costs will be revealed soon, all welcome book in first at CPA and secure your place canterburypotters@gmail.com see poster below. Committee for 2018 Chairman: Shona Clarkson - claytech1@gmail.com Secretary: ................ Treasurer: Ken Doidge - ken.doidge@gmail.com Class coordinator & Membership: Shona Clarkson - mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com Newsletter and web manager: Graham Maguire - gjmaguire@xtra.co.nz House hold and maintenance: Lorraine (Rudi) Jansen - rblanjan@xtra.co.nz Club day roster: Bill Bromley - bromleybill@hotmail.com Minute secretary: Brenda Benge - brendabenge@outlook.com Facebook manager: Anne Goddard - anne.goddard@yahoo.fr Leigh-Ann Smith leigh-ann.obrien@gib.co.nz Allan Mauger alinos@outlook.co.nz Please contact the committee by email or club day you will get a faster response  CLUB DAYS & CLUB NIGHTS
Club Days are on Tuesdays, 10am to 3.30pm and 7 to 9pm. Club Demonstration Nights are on the second Tuesday of every month. We are hosting guest speakers and demonstrations who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics relating to pottery and ceramics. A Gold coin or note donation please. To get most our of our Demonstration Club Nights please get in contact and let me know which topics you would like to know more about. I will try and make it happen! Renate 021-1336620. rgaletzka@gmail.com Weekend Schools Due to interest we will be reintroducing a number of weekend or one day workshops throughout the year. Please let me know what your interests are and i'll make that happen too. Programme Xmas and End of Year Party 2017 - with Secret Pottery Santa - Tuesday, December 12, 7pm. Join us for a celebratory end of year celebration. Some finger food would be great; drinks will be supplied by the Club. Bring a gift wrapped 'swap a pot' (Secret Santa) to be part of the draw, and you will end up with your new favourite piece of pottery to take home. 2018 February Tuesday 13th, 7pm Feldspar, Lead, Cobalt Oxide...What? First get together of the yearwith Question Time on Glaze materials, chemicals, glaze ingredients etc with keen potter and retired soil scientist Andrew Carran. Bring your questions, samples, pen and paper. March Tuesday 13th, 7pm Majolica Decoration with Eve Hope Eve worked in a Majolica decorating pottery in Italy, how cool is that! Eve will talk to us on how they applied the Majolica glaze and decorated their ware. April Weekend/one day workshop Slip/Engobe workshop Making use and application of colour slips. May Tuesday 8th, 7pm Club Special Meeting June Tuesday 12th, 7pmClub night with Mary Lou Foate Mary Lou lovingly creates these unique, whimsical, adorable and very individual pieces of art: miniature sculptures, plaques, brooches, coasters… by using found tools from nature or the kitchen draw. A very inspiring, creative and must attend evening. July Saturday 7th, 10.00am: One day engobe workshop with Renate, $50.00 Tuesday10th, 7.00pm Club night: Wood firing glaze night Shona has developed Shino and Celedon glazes suitable for wood firing. She is testing this this weekend (Sat 26th May) and will advise her results. Saturday 28th at Halswell Pottery Club for a wood firing. We are able to share a wood firing with the Halswell potters group in Candys Road, Halswell. We would like members to share this experience of chopping wood for fuel and spend a couple of hours stoking the kiln on July 28th. This is a great opportunity to try something different Pots can be made with LF18, Macs white, or clay that fires to 1300c. These will be bisqued in early July in our kilns. On Tuesday 10th July, club night, we will have a glazing night with your pots. The glazes available are a Shino & a Celedon. We will also have several washes. Types of work can be vases, jugs, cups, whimsical, sculptural type work but, no bowls or plates as this type of firing can leave rough marks inside the work. Outside roughness is ok. Check out websites on wood firings. If you're interested we will need about 10 people or more for this to happen.email mtpleasantpottery@gmail.com to book. August Tuesday 14th, 7pmStamp/sprig making, a hands on mini workshop with Nikki Wallace Bell September Tuesday 12th, 7pm Soup Night October Tuesday 9th, 7.00pm Glazing techniques How to use our spray gun – An introduction.. with Ken Dipping Glazes – Pot preparation, waxing, dipping techniques with and without tongs.. with Renate November AGM Tuesday 13th, 7.00pm December Tuesday 11th, 700pm Christmas party End of year party around the Hub pizza oven. Committee Meeting 13 Dec 2017
As we didn't have a quorum at the proposed AGM, inn November, we couldn't have a legal election. I welcome the new members who have joined the committee to help until we have a special AGM when they can be formally elected. We need to encourage the members to attend the special AGM in March as with out a chairman and secretary with the treasurer they are the official office bearers. I will continue as chairman until march then resign or elect a new chairman. Our first meeting will be held at 7.30 on DEC 13 with new members at the rooms; that is when the Wed class has finished for the year and it is best to hold the meetings in the rooms if we can. Agenda Discuss the positions of chairman, secretary, hub representative; this last position is important to us as it is in the rent agreement that all tenants have one or two people to attend the monthly meetings. These are usually on a Friday morning. (No decisions to be made at these meetings; bring them to the committee to decide what part the members will take) Clean up day Sat 27 January, 2018 Work programme and the number of people required to do it. Classes Start Monday 12th February 2018, 7.00 to 9.30pm for 8 weeks, Wednesday morning 14th, 10.00am to 12.30pm, 8 weeks and Thursday 15th 7 to 9.30, 8 weeks. The final lessons will be during the week beginning the 2nd April, 2018. Tutors will be appointed before then. Tutors have applied for Monday and Thursday classes. This will be discussed with Ken, Shona, Brenda and Graham during December. Wednesday tutor is Shona Clarkson. Perhaps children’s holiday classes this year could have a 10 to 13yrs and 13 to 16yrs as these age groups haven't participated in any of our holiday classes . Special AGM in March 2018 Notices to go out to the members to discus possible amendments to our constitution and the election of office bearers. This is a must or we will find it difficult to operate as a club. Web site Class information, newsletters on our Club News page and the first term’s programme on our Diary page. We have a Gallery page; discussion for photography members and class works. Meeting Rule If there is any other business to be raised at our committee meetings, email the details of your proposal and a resolution of the proposal to the chairperson, Shona, so that it may be inserted into the agenda. This achieves two outcomes; efficient meetings because members can prepare to discuss it and if the subject is important enough, it should be on the agenda. Having a resolution to a proposal indicates a members commitment to the idea. Cheers - Shona Chairperson, MPPG |
Our Pottery Group is based in Christchurch and our potters range from those that are nationally recognised through to total beginners. Everyone is welcome to join our classes as well as casual potters and new members are always welcome.
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LOCATION & CONTACT |
USEFUL LINKSNew Zealand Potters www.nzpotters.com
Mount Pleasant Community Centre www.mpcc.org.nz Phillips Town Community Hub www.phillipstown.org.nz |