PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF,

I’M A MAN OF CLAY AND GLAZE

PUSHED MUD AROUND FOR SEVENTY YEARS

OR TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DAYS.

Robin Hopper is a man of many parts, mostly worn out, rusty or dysfunctional, due to a lifetime of excesses! He started working with clay at the age of three and is still doing it over 70 years later. His lengthy, peripatetic career as a mudpusher has included side trips into working as a Professional Actor, Stage Designer, Property Maker, Stage Manager, Stage Carpenter, Grocer, Greengrocer, Jazz Musician, Teapot, Wine and Beer-Bottle, Trumpet, Trombone and Bugle Player, European Travel Guide, Founder of Several Clay/Art/Craft Organizations, Alchemist, Geologist, Primatologist, Linguist, Ornithologist, Botanist, Ceramic Historian, Educator, Author, Garden Designer, Lecturer on Japanese Garden Design, Laborer and Star of Stage, Screen and Potter’s Wheel!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

I'M BACK, BUT BUSY IN THE GARDEN!


COOL BUT LITTLE RAIN!


CN TOWER - TORONTO

AFTER A WEEK IN TORONTO AND SOUTH-EASTERN ONTARIO, WHERE IT WAS HOT AND HUMID, I RETURNED HOME TO THE WEST COAST WHERE IT WAS COOL BUT DRY AS A BONE! SO NOW IT IS HOSE-DRAGGING TIME TO HAND WATER A LARGE EXPANSE THAT IS CONTINUALLY DRIED OUT BY THE 700 YEAR OLD DOUGLAS FIR TREES, EACH ONE OF WHICH SUCKS OUT 40 GALLONS OF WATER PER DAY FROM THE SURROUNDING SOIL.

WHAT HAVE THE FOLLOWING IMAGES GOT IN COMMON? KEEP READING AND FIND OUT IN THE NEXT FEW POSTINGS.

































I WILL BE BACK WHEN THE WATERING IS DONE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS -  SEE YOU THEN.   RH
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3 comments:

  1. smartcatJune 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM

    You all look so distinguished in the group photo! Wish I could give you just a little of our water!

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  2. CyndiJune 18, 2012 at 5:24 AM

    I love the quartz and then gold shoes. I told someone the other day about looking at the original rock to get an idea of what that mineral would do in a glaze body. Hope you had a great time out east, even though I know you hate the humidity.

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  3. RachelJune 22, 2012 at 10:39 AM

    Wine, shoes, geodes, prop and puppet making, rock deposits.... Sounds like your synapses are all "fired" up! Can't wait to see the direction all of those connections take you in!

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