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THE ERA The Era NewmarketAurora tat Wed November 13 IKS The Second Section Sports News District News Entertainment ton caramics by most potters tter s art Shirley fascination of the fulfillment of creation Children know it What little boy r resisted an through a puddle What little girl never got satisfying- icky making mud Psychoanalysis might understand it Potters feel it Pottery the ceramic ashtray on table the dumpy little jar clutching a spray it composed of clay am gut- ami and rust ra it ion and musclebuilding labor and fulfill- fascination is hard to explain Some people never get good at it but they wont I let it go says potter Shirley Gray Kingcrafts King City has a permanent waiting list of I people wanting to join ceramics classes and most explain why they are interested Shirley Gray tries Its as if you I start with nothing A blob of clay thats really nothing Its soft you can poke at it Millions I of years ago it was a rock but it broke down along comes the potter and puts it back together again turns it into something that the potter created Its its She laughs consciously You have the feeling she is trying to explain something to people who have never wearied their shoulders pounding clay or been moved to tears when a bowl They with the earth creation By SUZANNE ZWARUN Era Staff Reporter out of the degree kiln in pieces or felt the joy of selling a piece It floored me Mrs Gray is say ing The first time someone bought something To think that people were putting out GOOD money for something I did If they like what I create enough to buy it I feel not exactly as if they bought a piece of me but they bought a momentary inspiration of mine Potters differ Mrs Gray has been hung up figurines since she started four years ago She likes little whimsical figures which she calls a lion with a mouse on his paw angels with intricate hairdos fashioned by push ing clay through a garlic press Her Newmarket working partner Ann Mortimer started six years ago with an en thusiasm for pretty symetrical things but has gone on to ragged edges and lines which just Mrs Gray gets all inhibited if some one asks her to make something to order She wants to remain free to create whatever fancy dictates Mrs Mortimer does take orders but her teacher Ron Roy of Toronto is nagging her to stop producing what will sell and to work more toward expanding her own skills She is on the brink now of submitting work for jury ing by the Canadian Handicraft Guild a move that would likely lead to her work being accepted for travelling shows Neither potter had any art training before beginning ceramics I loth were newcomers to Newmarket uninterested in coffee klatches Ann Mortimer ladies auxiliaries and golfing They joined King crafts as an alternative The alternative threatens to become a way of life Mrs Gray teaches at Kingcrafts at tends classes at the Ontario College of Art Mrs Mortimer has studied at the Hockley Valley art school has taken weekly les sons in Toronto for three years and would dearly love to move from her basement workshop into a bona fide studio She and her husband travel frequently to the US and while he attends medi cal seminars she searches for art shows and schools and other potters Pottery Is her answer to being a doc tors wife says Mrs Mortimer Theres a need in everyones life for something beyond the home and children For someone who would have argued violently that I had no ability I literally cant draw a straight line I find the joy of pottery in the niche it gives me to express myself The clay is pounded into hall The ball is on begins the potters wheel unit hap- The revolves electrically but hands must do the work the A bowl begin to emerge A wire cutter slices the w bowl from the Ann Mortimer regret her lack of chemical knowledge when it comes to mixing up glazes for her pottery Hut it doesnt discourage her as much as it used to she now knows where to look up the nation and experiments with glazes have taught her what can go where Here she Measures barium carbonate on a small scale Iteislnger photos Ann Mortimers kiln is used for her own poller as well works of Mrs Gray This oven an electric one cost ago and would probably cost at least today Mrs Mortimer