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Angie Mindus
Cariboo Advisor
Inspired by the surrounding forest and lake outside her pottery studio on Grebe Drive at the end of South Lakeside, naturalist and artist Anna Roberts will be hosting a show and sale of her latest work this weekend.
The annual show and sale, which will be fittingly displayed outdoors, begins Friday at 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. and again on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. at Roberts’ home studio located at 2202 Grebe Drive.
“In my pottery making, I have tried to reflect the power and grace of form and design found in the natural world,” Roberts explains of her style. “Weathered wood is just one of the natural surfaces that inspires my work.”
This year Roberts has incorporated designs in her hand-built pottery stamped from pieces of actual wood bark with beetle formations and the results are beautiful.
“At first, I was experimenting with the red clay found in our field. Then when Vivien Cowan suggested I organize a pottery workshop for people in Williams Lake, I asked Zelko Kujundzic to come and teach us,” Roberts recalls.
“After that workshop, a few of us decided to form the Cariboo Potters Guild.”
Over the years Roberts said her skill with making pots increased, and in recent years she decided she could make more interesting forms by using hand-building techniques.
“Hand-built pots take more time than wheel thrown ones, but as pottery is my recreation, time is not a factor.”
An avid outdoors woman, Roberts literally makes her artwork of vases, plant pots and plates from scratch by digging in the earth for her clay.
“Although the Cariboo has clay everywhere, I dig and haul home only clay that gives the results I want when finished.”
To learn more about this inspiring local woman and her work, visit Roberts’ show and sale this weekend.
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