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!

Friday, January 6, 2012

THE GRINCH.



THE GRINCH IS A NASTY CHARACTER FROM  THE BRAIN OF DR SUESS. HE LARGELY REPRESENTS NEGATIVE THINGS OR NEGATIVE THOUGHT
HE IS GENERALLY MEAN, DESTRUCTIVE, MALEVALENT, SMELLY AND CERTAINLY NOT SOMEONE YOU WOULD WANT TO GET CLOSE TO.  OFTEN, PARTICULARLY OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS, I HAVE STRONGLY RELATED TO HIM WHILE IN A NEGATIVE FRAME OF MIND AND THINGS IN MY LIFE JUST WERE’NT GOING THE WAY I WANTED THEM TO GO.  I GET VERY ANGRY, ANNOYED, FORGETFUL AND NOT TOO PLEASANT TO BE AROUND. YOU JUST ASK MY WIFE!

WELL, I COMMITED THE CARDINAL SIN OF OMITTING TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE TO MY LONGTERM  STUDIO ASSISTANT, ARLENE YARNELL. SHE IS ALMOST PART OF THE FAMILY HAVING  HAS WORKED WITH JUDI AND I FOR 21 YEARS AS PART OF THE TEAM  THAT IS ‘CHOSIN POTTERY.  IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT WE DO AND THE ENTITY WE HAVE CREATED GO TO THE TOP OF THE LINKS AND YOU WILL LIKELY FIND OUT MORE THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW. GETTING BACK TO ARLENE, PROFUSE APOLOGIES, DEAR, WILL YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? I PROMISE TO NEVER OVERLOOK YOU AGAIN.  OR YOU JUDE.  IT REMINDS ME OF ONE OF THE BLOG  SECTIONS THAT I PLAN AS A REGULAR COLUMN – “WHY ARE MEN SO STUPID?”  I FEEL TRULY HUNG OUT TO DRY!



YESTERDAY, I HAD A CALL FROM MY OLDER DAUGHTER KAREN, WHO LIVES IN EASTERN CANADA. SHE HAD BEEN OUT WITH HER MOTHER, MY FIRST WIFE, SUE HARA, CHECKING OUT THE SECOND HAND STORES.  IN ONE THEY FOUND A CASSEROLE THAT I HAD PROBABLY MADE 45 YEARS PREVIOUSLY IN MY ONTARIO STUDIO.  THE PRICE WAS MARKED AT $6.50 SO KAREN BOUGHT IT TO KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY.  NOW I KNOW MY TRUE VALUE AS AN ARTIST! I’M GLAD THAT THERE IS NO IMAGE OF THAT CASSEROLE. I HATE LOOKING AT MY OLD WORK WITHOUT A HAMMER IN HAND.  IF ITS OWNED BY SOMEONE ELSE ITS TOO LATE FOR QUALITY CONTROL. THE HAMMER IS THE BEST TOOL FOR QUALITY CONTROL,  EVERY STUDIO SHOULD HAVE A BIG ONE BESIDE THE KILN FOR A QUICK AND FINAL DECISION.


WELL, TIME TO QUIT FOR THIS WEEK   NICE TO THINK POSITIVELY THAT WE ARE NOW ONE WEEK CLOSER TO SPRING, AND I CAN CELEBRATE THE FIRST WEEK OF THIS BLOG.  SO, WE ARE HAVING A PARTY WITH SESAME STREET BAND.

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON MONDAY. HAVE A RESTFUL WEEKEND



PS.       I JUST HEARD THAT  TWO DEAR ARTIST FRIENDS HAVE SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS.  PLEASE SEND POSITIVE ENERGY TO CRAIG ROGERS AND RACHEL KINGSTON.
 

 
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