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Education: England: Luton College of Art LSIA Kingston University Potclays Staffordshire Canada: Yellowknife Guild of Crafts, Northern Homecrafters, Sheridan College of Craft and Design (SOCAD) Art School of Peterborough Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts Frantic Farms Exhibitions & Shows London UK: LSIA Fashion Exhibition/Show Yellowknife NWT: Hand Made Christmas (Annual Show/Sale) Touchstone Art Gallery County Fair "Craftcycle" Edmonton Alberta: Creative Clothing Competition Creative Clothing Exhibit Oakville Ontario: SOCAD Annual Show and Exhibit Toronto Ontario: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Kingston Ontario: Fanfayr Spring Simmer Peterborough Favourite Places Art Auction Queens Park Legislative Building |
As a mature student and feeling my years one day at school, a much younger fellow told me that in China, to be recognized as an artist you need both skill and life experience. So to even be considered you had to be at least 50. I have always messed around with stuff, finding stuff and making it into other stuff. I used my fathers tools as a child, help fix my car when older and designed clothes for others and myself. A Jack-of-all-trades if you will. My husband was a geologist whose work and passion were rocks. He also messed around with stuff usually hitting it with a hammer and licking it. We lived in all sorts of unusual places off the beaten path. Our homes were tents on the frozen tundra of Arctic Canada, under the hot and humid Jungle canopies of the Amazon and everywhere in between. He showed me how to find Gemstones hidden in the black crusty vomit of a volcano, to pan for gold and many other things. We both loved things hand made and natural. We have watched the sun rise and set over vistas from up high and low. While his last few years were spent watching our garden grow, the sunset and me pot, he had lots of ideas for his rocks and my mud. These and all my life experiences now direct my pottery. The connection between geology and clay is simple. Clay is the end product of millions of years of fire, pressure and erosion. Potters take the mud and using similar forces, within days turn it back to rock. It's the ultimate recycling project! June Goodwin |