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!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

"BREAKING SILENCE #3"



BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!


MISSA 2012 - SECOND WEEK OF JULY + AMBASSADOR OF THE ARTS EVENING WITH VALDY 


MORE IMAGES FROM THE FIRST WEEK AND WEEKEND OF MISSA JULY 2012. ART SCHOOL AS YOU NEVER EXPECTED IT TO BE BUT ALWAYS HOPED FOR - FABULOUS INSTRUCTORS, DEDICATED AND EXCITED STUDENTS IN A PARADISE SETTING = MAGIC

FOUNDING PRESIDENT EMERITUS - R.H.

FASHION STATEMENT

AMBASSADOR OF THE ARTS DINNER
ABSTRACT PAINTING



ANIMAL SCULPTURE

FELTING
ROB FROESE STUFFED AT THE AMBASSADOR'S DINNER

HEATHER SPEARS - BEST LIFE DRAWING TEACHER IN THE WORLD

AMBASSADOR'S DINNER


AMBASSADOR'S DINNER

AMBASSADOR'S DINNER
SLIGHTLY INEBRIATED  PHOTOGRAPHER AT THE VALDY/ROESSINGH CONCERT 

DOCKS

REGULAR CAMPUS VISITORS
WEEKEND CERAMIC SCULPTURE CLASS

TECHIE DAN

FIGURE IN MOTION

FRANK - ABSTRACT PAINTING

WORKING WITH CERAMIC DECALS
FELTING WITH DALE ROBERTS




KNIFE PAINTING COURSE





KEN CAMPBELL IN MOTION

KAREL ROESSINGH - BOARD MEMBER,  MC AND MUSICIAN

AMBASSADOR OF THE ARTS  DINNER

THE BACK SIDE 


SEE YOU AGAIN ON MONDAY NEXT, 16TH JULY WITH IMAGES FROM THE LAST WEEK OF MISSA 2012


ROBIN

3 comments:

  1. Sounds and looks like a good time was had by all!

    So great to see you posting again!

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  2. I wish I could have been there !
    That shirt you are wearing is a work of art... yours ?

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  3. Would love to have been there also. What fun! That shirt of yours is awesome!

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