Year: 2021

2021 Holiday Profile – Cathy Allen

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Cathy strives to make decorative functional pottery that enhances and beautifies our everyday lives. Simple carving techniques and patterns on her functional wheel thrown pottery give way to the richness of life that is all around us. She hopes you will enjoy her pieces!
 
Just a reminder, our sale runs from the 14th to the 23rd with appointments and walk-ins available. Due to COVID-19 protocols, our show room cannot exceed capacity. So we highly recommend you book ahead or check availability to ensure you don’t have to wait!
Carved plate featuring a blue heron in cattails - Cathy AllenVase carved with dragonflies and flowers - Cathy Allen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Holiday ornaments cut in sweater shaped and painted in various patterns and colours - Cathy Allen

2021 Holiday Sale Profile – Jane Turner

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I have been potting part time for 10 years, taking lots of work shops, courses and learning for the very generous pottery community. Each year I add a few new skills.  During Covid lock downs I started growing Orchids and Succulents. Turns out I have a black thumb. Even though I can’t grow plants I love making homes for them.
 
Dark rust glazed round mug - Jane TurnerBlue carved snowflake with cut outs - Jane Turner
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Blue galaxy glazed tumbler - Jane TurnerSmall planter and tray glazed partially with a drippy greenish yellow glaze - Jane Turner

Celebrate Ceramics Fundraiser

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Tickets for Celebrate Ceramics, KPG’s fundraiser, will be available during our Holiday Show & Sale.  This is the perfect gift for those hard to buy for folks, or as a thank you gift for that special person on your Christmas shopping list. What a great chance for you to offer someone a one-of-a-kind gift while supporting the KPG!

What is Celebrate Ceramics you ask?  In support of fostering, educating, and promoting ceramic arts and artists, the Kawartha Potters Guild is holding a fundraiser on Friday April 8, 2022.  Each Event Ticket holder, when their number is randomly drawn, will be able to choose a pottery item to take home with them. If you want to bring a friend or partner along with you, Guest Tickets are available.   This is a great gift idea while supporting the local ceramic arts community.

Tickets are $75 (guest tickets are $25) which entitles the ticket holder to a beautiful piece of pottery of their choice, complimentary wine and appetizers, live music and an evening of fun and entertainment! Celebrate Ceramics is on Friday April 8, 2022 at the Lions Club on Burnham St. in Peterborough.

 

2021 Holiday Sale Profile – Karina Bates

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Karina (Horus Eye Pottery) has been an active potter for over 15 years. Her work is strongly influenced by medieval, and especially middle eastern designs and ornamentation. She also very much enjoys making reproduction pottery for the re-enactment community. In 2016, Karina participated in the Fusion Mentorship program under Michelle Mendlowitz, and in 2018, she travelled to Icheon, Korea with 5 other members of the Guild, to learn techniques from Korean pottery masters. Also in 2018, Karina was accepted into the KPG Juried show at the Peterborough Art Gallery and was honoured to win the Design Award from Angelo di Petta. Karina also teaches three wheel classes at the Guild. You can find Karina’s work in our Pottery Shop and she will also be participating in the 2021 Holiday Sale from December 14 – 23.

Mug, pitcher and honey pot in blue and rust with carved grains - Karina Bates3D holiday ornament with red incised lines and open cutwork - Karina Bates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mug painted with sunset colours and black silhouette trees - Karina BatesBowl painted with cobalt blue and carved through in swirling lines - Karina Bates

 

2021 Holiday Sale Profile – Sara Purves

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I started taking pottery classes six years ago after retiring from my job as a teacher and administrator.  Pottery has been a creative outlet as well as providing many opportunities for continuous learning.  I enjoy hand-building and throwing; both methods of working with clay are harder than they look but the possibilities are endless. It is so inspiring to take something that is beautiful out of the kiln knowing that you created it!
 
Carved bowl glazed in a rich blue - Sara PurvesPortrait Sara Purves
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brown Glazed bowl - Sara PurvesBlue carved mug set in colourful fall leaves - Sara Purves

2021 Holiday Sale Profile – Priya Harding

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I first met clay in the late 1970s, and have loved it ever since. Many years and workshops later, I still practise, fail, experiment, and explore. The flow of throwing, and then the creative work of painting and incising designs remain my passions. The designs of bright poppies, sunny lemons, and fish among water weeds that I am playing with now originated in efforts to bring more colour to my pieces during FUSION’s 2016-17 Creative Directions programme. Since then a KPG group trip to Korea in 2018 and memories of places like Portugal, southern France, and the northern shores of Lake Superior have all influenced my work. My love for clay continues, as does my intent to create pottery that is both functional and a pleasure for the senses.

Porcelain tumbler with blue painted feather - Priya HardingRed Poppies painted on porcelain honey pot - Priya Harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Porcelain butter dish painted with cobalt grains - Priya HardingBlue and Black glazed pitcher - Priya Harding

Kawartha Potters Guild Annual Holiday Sale!

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Are you ready?  Our annual Holiday show and sale is back!  With many of our regulars and a few new faces, you can continue your holiday tradition (or start a new one) by visiting us between December 14 – 23.  We will be open Monday – Friday from Noon – 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

As with last year, we are giving you the opportunity to book a minimum of a half hour time slot (you can stay longer, just make another booking) to shop in a relaxed and uncrowded atmosphere.  You can certainly take the chance and drop by.  If we are not full, we can let you in (or advise when you can return).  You can book your appointment (s) here.  

We are taking donations of socks for local charities if you wish to drop a pair by when you visit.  We will also be selling tickets to our Celebrate Ceramics Fundraiser, scheduled for April 2022.  More about this event in a future post – watch this space!

Donation Thanks!

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Kawartha Potters Guild would like to thank Mr. Glen Wright, a new member of KPG, for his generous gift of money to be used towards our new computer system. This was given in recognition of Karina Bates’ contribution to KPG and teaching.

Member Class Registration

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Image of Darlene Malcolm-Moran at her wheel

The perks of membership!  If you are a member and wish to sign up for the next session of classes (beginning the week of November 1st), you can do so via an e-transfer payment and by emailing Donna before the end of day, Monday, October 11, 2021.  General registration will go live after that.   

Also, as a reminder, if you have not yet renewed your membership, it is now overdue.  Please renew immediately to avoid any loss of privileges.

 

Covid Vaccination Requirements

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In keeping with COVID-19 Protocols, anyone entering KPG will be required to wear a full face mask and sanitize hands upon entry. Anyone over the age of 12 who is attending a class, workshop, or using the facility (glaze or studio area) is required to provide proof of double vaccination certificate, with identification.  Should you have any questions regarding our policy, please contact our ">administrator.

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