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, July 7, 2012

BREAKING SILENCE #2!


OPEN YOURSELF UP TO ART
Website:  missa.ca












































Many different courses are offered at Missa in different time frames, from two-day weekend workshops to five and ten-day sessions, depending on the complexity of the course content. Instructors are selected internationally for their special skills, and include many of the top professionals in their various media. We share the beautiful Pearson College campus with much wildlife, such as deer, raccoons, harbor seals, occasional sealions, otters and innumerable species of bird life.


Following are a number of images of workplaces and work being done this year in Ceramics, Painting, Drawing, Textiles, Printmaking, Paper Collage, Jewelry, Sculpture, Poetry and Creative Writing.


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COFFEE BREAK

STUDENT RESIDENCE
KILLER WHALE SKELETON IN CHEMISTRY LAB



LARKIN VAN HORN - FABRIC COLLAGE
LARKIN VAN HORN - FABRIC COLLAGE


CHEMISTRY LAB - GLAZE AND COLOR DEVELOPMENT 

FLOATING CLASSROOMS


VIEW OUT TO THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA

HAND-BUILDING ROOM 


PLATE MOLDS

WALLA-WALLA KEITH


LISA IN THE THROWING STUDIO




MONOPRINT WORKSHOP 


PAPER COLLAGE

GLAZE TESTS READY FOR FIRING
GLAZE TESTS READY FOR FIRING

TEXTURE MATERIALS




PRESS-MOLDED PINECONE - 18" IN LENGTH


ALAN WYLIE - GRISAILLE PAINTING INSTRUCTOR 
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The above images are a random selection from the first week of  MISSA's July session, 2012.  All being well, I will be doing further postings next week on Wednesday, July 11th and Sunday, July 15th. These will focus on a group of new courses. There will be a total of four postings that make up the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts - 2012 File.


SEE YOU NEXT TIME, ROBIN


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4 comments:

  1. RachelJuly 11, 2012 at 2:58 PM

    It all looks very inspiring and what a beautiful location! Thank you so much for the photos, Robin. xxx

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  2. Nadine MercaderJuly 12, 2012 at 12:20 PM

    Robin,
    I hope that this means you are feeling better! Hot as hades in my garage studio so I am inside on the computer until evening. Take care of yourself, you still have so much to share with so many of us!
    Nadine

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  3. DarleneJuly 12, 2012 at 5:59 PM

    Looks like an awesome place! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. UnknownJuly 14, 2012 at 8:30 PM

    I think that's how Australia will have to go, now that the TAFE (tertiary technical colleges,government run.) fine arts and ceramic courses are under going serious changes with price hikes and dismantling, but it have to be affordable, because there are many low income, would be participants that would miss out.It great to see your enlightened course of action bearing fruit.Your blog is an inspiration on a lot of levels.sincerely, Krista .

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