Jack Ploesser

Last Wednesday's presenter for the monthly TriCity Potters' meeting at PoMoArts was Roberts Creek potter Jack Ploesser. We met him during our two days of touring the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl last October. https://www.gillianmcmillan.com/blog/2022/11/01/scac-jack-ploesser-the-niebergall His natural-gas fired cone 10 reduction pieces are exuberant, very colourful, and mainly functional. Jack was pleased to be invited to talk to us and had prepared lots of thrown forms…

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February 20th, 2023

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Linda, Sue & Owen admire the Mandala

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SCAC: Jack Ploesser & the Niebergalls

Our Sunshine Coast Art Crawl continued with a short drive down into the village of Roberts Creek. There we parked beside Gumboot Restaurant and took a stroll down to the ocean. I wanted Linda to see the community Mandala. Local people re-paint it every year. After a very good lunch, sitting outside at the Gumboot Restaurant (the Gumboot café had no sandwiches!) we resumed our…

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November 1st, 2022

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.