Editorial

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To be an editor as well as a practising potter means that one has the best of both worlds. Invitations to events that involve speaking and writing are matched by requests to give workshops. Both offer me the chance to meet many people in the ceramic field. I find subjects for articles as well as subscribers for the magazine and I can learn new ways in an exchange of technical knowledge as happens in a workshop situation. The instructor can find fresh ideas equally at the same time as the students are absorbing a different approach to ceramics. A fine group of potters and ceramic artists were gathered at Peters Valley Crafts Centre in Layton, New Jersey, US, when I arrived to lead a …