I started doing pottery in San Bernardino, California (U.S. of A - [I'm a
flaming libertarian, Liberal]) in the 70s with Ken Reed, a student of Paul
Soldner, as my instructor. Ken along with Che his wife were and are to me
the symbols of the art and craft.

I moved to the east coast with my husband in 1979 and began earning my
living writing programs for research in cognitive psychology. Whenever I
could I would find a way to play with clay but with the demands of work,
children, home construction, etc. it became the poor stepchild that was
badly neglected. For years I have threatened to quit my job and pot full
time but for years my husband has pointed out that our grad students and our
children would be unable to finish their education without me (for
programming and finance respectively). This year I bought myself a kiln
and have turned half of the basement into my studio. For years I have
always done volunteer work in the various studios I have worked in because I
love the entire process of working with clay. This Spring however, I had my
first entire independent complete production cycle and it was a gas (well
actually electric... ).

I have mixed my programming and my love of the craft by writing a simplified
glazing program. If you want it you can contact me at
.. I would like to get feedback on how it isn't user friendly and what it
lacks if you decide to play with it. You would think that since computer
programming has been my livelihood for decades that I would have a web page
but that too has gone to the back burner. So much to do - so little time in
life....





"annemarie" wrote in message
...
Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do.
Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell"
thread.
We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start.

I live in New Zealand in the Wellington Region.
http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ A site about wellington.
Unfortunately I do not have a website, my 20 yr old son has been meaning
to
make one for me, he does computer programming, but its a bit like the
plumbers house with the leaking taps )
I teach pottery at a Waldorf (Steiner) school to 13 -14 year olds. Also
to
adults a local art centre. I make one off pieces, usually thrown and very
decorated, sometimes altered. I enter these into exhibitions. I have no
intention or desire to attempt mass production.
I belong to quite a few pottery organisations, one of them being The New
Zealand Society of Potters. Here is their website
http://nzpotters.com/
Looking forward to hearing about lots of other people )
Annemarie