David Walker's Naked Raku ceramics are featured in an exhibition with his wife's paintings at the Gallery On The Square in Poundbury between 18th February and 15th March.
See the gallery website at this link.

As you are probably already aware, Dorset County Council intends to close nine libraries unless we staff and fund them ourselves. Charmouth is one of those facing the axe but we have set up Friends of Charmouth Library not only to try to save it but to extend its services so it becomes even more of a community hub.

Of course, this means a mad scramble to try to raise some funds - a task made all the more difficult in a village which already does so much charity fund-raising.

Undaunted though, we're holding an Auction of Promises on 25 February and, though we have already had some good promises, we're hoping for more.

We wondered if any of your members might be prepared to give a taster workshop or hands-on demonstration to as many or few people as convenient as one (or more!) of these promises.

We know that the Bridport Arts Centre exhibition was much enjoyed and heard several people say how much they would like to try their hands without actually committing to a full course.

If any of your members is generous enough to make a promise, we would of course include full contact and any other details in our advertising and would hope that this would aid in promoting the artist's profile.

I can't tell you how much we would appreciate any help you can give.

Yours sincerely

Hazel
Hazel Robinson
Chair, Friends of Charmouth Library
HazelRosery@aol.com

The Borough of Poole is seeking to appoint a professional ceramics artist to design and
produce a unique, celebratory work to commemorate the opening of Poole’s Twin Sails
Bridge in March 2012. The artwork will be installed on an external, traditional brick wall in
the entrance courtyard of Poole Museum, and will share the space with the Purbeck stone
sculpture; ‘Sitting, Kneeling, Looking’ by Glynn Williams.
The Artist's brief is attached.
Submissions have to be made by 3rd January 2012

The Bridport Arts Centre have offered the group a prime spot in the calendar for the annual exhibition in 2012 - from 4th to 15th December 2012.
We were invited to change the date to a week later, but have declined.
Watch this space for details!

The DPG's annual exhibition has been set up and opened to to delight of all those who are participating and visiting!
The gallery page will shortly feature some photographs of the exhibition displays.
The show is open until 29th October, 10am to 4pm (closed Sundays and Mondays).

The Resources section of this website now has copies of the exhibitors' stock list for members' use at exhbitions. There is a spreadsheet version, which can be filled in, or a PDF version that has to be printed out and written on.
These lists help keep track of the stock brought into shows, what is sold and what is left at the end, the differences being sorted out! Members need to produce two copies, one for themselves and one for the DPG to use.

This website now hosts a collection of pages that explain some of the processes used by members to create their pottery. These images and text have been prepared for display at the Bridport Art Centre during the 2011 exhibition.
Just click on the link at the left to see the pages.

This exhibition by Britain's most famous potter (?) looks like a must see.

6 October 2011 – 19 February 2012

http://www.britishmuseum.org/graysonperry

If enough people are interested we could run a Group visit to see it, perhaps early in 2012?
For now put a comment below if you are interested.