We at Arts Pacific Gallery would like to pass along Jeanne Sarich’s gratitude to her clients and the community at large who have supported her passion for pottery over the past 13 years on Bowen Island.
Her cheerful presence in Artisan Square and the cove will be missed.
Jeanne is retiring from Cloudflower Clayworks due to health issues and is residing with her sister in Surrey. She hopes to get back to potting in the near future and will keep us posted about that.
We will continue to carry her pottery at Arts Pacific Gallery (with many items on sale) until the end of the year to honour the time and energy she put into our Co-op gallery since joining. We all wish Jeanne a speedy recovery and good health going forward with the hope that she will be back to creating with clay.
“On a practical level, working with clay is just something nice to do,” she told New Zealand writer Nicole Barratt in a profile in WomenClan magazine. “But clay is cosmic dust. It’s the stuff of us... When an artist creates a figure out of clay, it feels very god-like...
“To smell clay, to look at it, to squeeze it, shape it, fire and colour it, it makes me happy. To me you have to ask yourself, ‘Well why am I here?’ I’m here to have fun. This is what I love. That’s how basic it is.”
Spoiler alert: There will probably be pottery happening on the site in the near future. Stay tuned to the Undercurrent for updates.
You can read Barratt’s full profile on the Undercurrent’s website.
