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
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Saturday, July 7, 2012

BREAKING SILENCE #2!


OPEN YOURSELF UP TO ART
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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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