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This custom-made motorcycle caught the eye of spectators young and old with its skeletal appearance during Saturday’s Ladysmith Show and Shine car show on First Avenue. Please turn to page 18 for more photos from the Show and Shine and from Friday night’s Rod Run. Niomi Pearson/Chronicle
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year, they are the guest artists at Arts on the Avenue, which takes place this Sunday (Aug. 26) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. along First How do you stay excited and passionate Avenue. about your work after more than 30 years? “Our work, it has an incredible variety to it, For Jo and Vic Duffhues, the secret lies but it’s what makes us have fun out here,” in variety. says Jo. The Duffhueses own JoVic Pottery, and, The Duffhueses both enjoy raku pottery together, they create functional stoneware, because it is unpredictable. raku pottery, clay art and more at their “With raku firings, you don’t really know Shell Beach Road studio. how it’s going to turn out, which is part of Jo and Vic have been creating pottery the excitement,” said Jo, noting there is a together since 1979. They’ve been living 40-per-cent or more failure rate in raku. and working in Yellow Point since 1992, With raku, pots come out of the kiln at and they have been mainstays at the annual 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, and they go Arts on the Avenue one-day art festival. This through an intense post-firing cycle that The Chronicle
brings out different colours in the glazes find it especially powerful with raku when and also creates crackling, black lines we still don’t know what we’re going to get where smoke blackens parts of the pots after doing this for 30 years. There’s that that don’t have glaze on them. element of surprise.” “It’s a really interesting thing; with raku, After more than 30 years making pottery, we actually hope for a crackle with the Vic and Jo are both still very passionate and glaze,” explained Jo. “We look for that excited about their art — and they feel that because we want to see that contrast. It’s may be because they never let themselves always been true with modern technology get bored. with electric kilns that you can end up with “It’s always experimenting,” said Jo. “It’s a rather bland product if you are not care- really a love affair with clay.” ful; whereas, potters of eons ago relied on “I think of it as many years ago, Jo and I ashes and fire and didn’t know what they entered into a relationship with clay, and would get, so you have that excitement. as with any relationship, you have to keep “Vic and I try to recreate that excitement it interesting,” added Vic. “We do so many in our electric kilns with three glazings. We See Couple Page 11
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