LEGACY

 David Walters and Friends Ceramics Exhibition 

titled LEGACY 

- an exhibition which pays tribute to the late Professor Juliet Armstrong and the 

Centre for Visual Arts at University of Kwazulu Natal

 opens on Wednesday 24th July at the 

William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley

These are some of my new vases which I submitted for the exhibition

KIMBERLEY EXHIBITION

Vessels relating to the poem 'Survival' by Kobus Moolman

These are some of my fun 'teacup-and -saucer-in-one' pieces.

Back in the swing of things...an exhibition opening tonight at The William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley called David Walters and Friends. The ceramists on this group show were invited to do two somewhat disparate things - one, make a world cup and saucer(hence mine here) and the other to make some work inspired by the poetry of Kobus Moolman's anthology 'After the Light'.

The poem that moved me...

Survival

We who accept survival as our password

accept incompleteness as our blessing.

We who dress in blindness and in faith

do not know the colour of our palms

nor the weight of our feet upon the water.

We who have dust in our mouths all day

have stones on our tongues instead of songs.

We who quench fire with fire all night

know that wings are not the only ladders

to the dark, that heavy wood swims too

in the tide of the wind.

We who accept survival

accept survival as our curse.

CULTURE IN FRANSCHHOEK

A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE WORK OF ANDREW WALFORD

POT BY ANDREW WALFORD

SUNSET ON THE ROAD OUT OF FRANSCHHOEK

EARLY MORNING IN THE FRANSCHHOEK VALLEY VINYARDS

This past weekend was spent in Franschhoek, which is a village in the winelands about 80 kilometres out of Cape Town. The weekend of the Literary Festival - lectures, panel discussions and lots of red wine - also the Andrew Walford exhibition at David Walters Studio, and the launch of a new book called A POTTER'S TALE IN AFRICA which is about Walford's work. Both Walford and Walters , stalwarts, are of the school which celebrates Leach and Anglo-oriental ceramics..a rare occurrence these days in South Africa, when by now the local masters, Hymie Rabinowitz and Esias Bosch have passed on, and most youngsters might assume 'reduction' to be a kind of balsamic vinegar!

NEW WORK

A GROUP OF 3 VASES FOR AN EXHIBITION AT THE END OF JULY - DAVID WALTERS AND FRIENDS AT THE WILLIAM HUMPHREY MUSEUM, KIMBERLEY



A MURAL INSTALLED TODAY FOR A CLIENT. IN THE PICTURE - ADONIS AND ALBIE WHO ACTUALLY DID THE INSTALLATION...A LONG DAY!