Salt Spring Island Artists | Francine Hampson & John Reid | Episode 1104
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Francine Hampson and John Ried are the owners of Mudpuppy Studios, a production pottery studio producing functional ware. The studio wares are mainly thrown on the potter's wheel with alterations and additions done by hand building. The clay is high fire stoneware fired in a 15cu. ft. gas kiln introducing salt/soda at 2350F. The effects are spectacular but unpredictable. The wares are sold locally on Salt Spring Island through the Waterfront Gallery or Artcraft/ Wintercraft shows.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,104 of the Potter's cast. Wow, what a week this was. What a week. |
| 0:27.2 | Like Tuesday morning when the last episode was released, we, well, you know, I have two companies. |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah, let's just stick with that. I have two companies. Yeah, let's just stick with that. |
| 0:38.9 | I have two companies. |
| 0:40.9 | One of them is called Guardian Electric, and we are an electrical contractor here in the Pacific Northwest, specifically Clark County, Washington, and we do a lot of construction work. So I have a number of employees and they drive |
| 0:58.9 | their vans home in the evening and they then drive the vans to work and we had a special |
| 1:06.7 | meeting once a month where we go over safety, we talk about company issues, things we could do |
| 1:14.1 | better, we congratulate people, we talk about company values, and so on and so forth. So that's, |
| 1:21.7 | that's a monthly meeting that we do at 645 in the morning and then the guys head off to their |
| 1:27.0 | prospective jobs. One of the things that and then the guys head off to their prospective jobs. |
| 1:28.8 | One of the things that I provide for them at those meetings is that I will stop at Mr. Maple, |
| 1:35.5 | and I will get some donuts, and we will all have a donut while we're standing around listening to the safety talk or the various things that we do. |
| 1:45.4 | So that's where I was on Tuesday morning when I get a phone call. |
| 1:51.8 | I'm just about to get out of my truck, about to go into Mr. Maple, and I get a phone call from one of my guys, his wife is calling me. |
| 2:05.3 | And she said, he was in an accident. |
| 2:08.8 | He was in an accident. |
| 2:10.6 | And I was like, what, what's going on? |
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