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Rosalie Blake
Kete Horowhenua2020-03-23T16:47:19+00:00Tutor for Levin Pottery Club
| Date of birth | 10/04/1941 |
| Media | clay |
| Contact phone number | 362 6784 |
| Contact postal address | 47 Tame Porati Street, Manakau |
| Contact email address | rosablake@gmail.com |
Rosalie has more than 40 years experience as a potter. She is able to teach all the main techniques. She spent some five years potting for a living back in the seventies when hand thrown domestic ware was everyone's first choice. More recently she has moved to abstract slab forms, although the leisurely technique of coiling remains a favourite. She has, for most of her pottery life, used the ecologically-kind technique of once-firing. Glazes are applied to leatherhard pots. omitting the common bisque step, with a substantial saving on the energy required to produce a pot.