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+. wiww.northumberlandtoday.com THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE â€" Thursday, August 2, 2007 â€"3 $ h f \ + Local News 5 e [wo artists â€" two paths: Vessels of the Earth opens Saturday _ | se cE +7 P g s ur | glazes, calls out to be touched. up a marketing career in the city [ | | . «By Bos OweN e bifys l 0 When she sits down to begin . and moved to the country north of “ . | _ lowen@xplomet.com #% B C |â€" Oe s _ Wl | making a pot, she has to have Warkworth to pursue his passion I: B 4 C wa"® â€" | _ Oamiat _# o. something in her head: "You have _ with wood. His spouse, Elizabeth J E{l;alfieth willoueshby, kqnd ” y 7. 4 = | $rome s aathe i(i * to know \%here you‘re going. The Heon, came too but continues her > ‘ h l auid, Lyon "ereate siniking J _ . _3 ; 1e [ O se N O work is always better when you .. market research career. waa‘lo! : functional works of beauly. But [ o 5 w ... dsmm â€" Ne i ) _ * nave something in mind." Twelve years ago, Liz pulled up they arrive at their visions from _i _ _ ?fi _ it rsetbesl _ exe aoe l . 00 ~ © mwo disparate approaches â€" stakes in the city to carry on with j different directions. They are the > _ «l y * C in .. _ _ NCO OA ) |\ ’fi% two routes to perfection. her pottery. in Haldimand featured artists of the next YY a 20 . mes ) â€"~u ~" While they approach their â€" Township. Unlike David, she hat Colborne Art Gallery exhibit ) _ cosnp 5n ( L tss . _ work differently, the artists have. «already given up a 20â€"year career 4 opening 2 p.m. this Saturday. | \ m hnA ol Pree" â€"‘ CA ~ always been called to their media. _ in nursing in 1982, a career she Mr. .. Lyon, . (a |â€" master" | 1 wee t .: |â€" We EL _ > 0_ For David, it all began when he ~says has parallels with makifi@. j woodturner, obtains his wood ~ i h .e ) \ took â€" a.â€" shop _ class / «in â€" pottery. Both nursing and potté PR â€" from a variety of sources, some | U | Ei, | aly w o4 _ woodworking. Wood has always» tmaking are very human, tact«% serendipitous, some preordained. || ) i3 . 2 "wah \ ‘spoken to him. At one time, he activities she says. jolt..~ 10 ; He‘ll try anything from elm to || L. 3 0|# s 1 C‘ 2A# 3. _ ) cbuld recognize most finished . Both artists live in homes filled > apple and other more exotic E ‘% _ y a i OWV _ _ woods: now. he can do it with , with the media to which they gy';« f woods. . Â¥ | [ 5d % 8X 4o on /9 é _ O u) most unfinished pieces. When he . bonded. ‘a _ When a block.of wood is locked || y 4 A /C ul o *’u / W ‘enters a house, he reaches out to Now, both longâ€"time membeg : {)nt_o his lathe, the adventure ‘| 198 > s t o ' 4 fouch wood. A of the 10â€"yearâ€"old.Colborne Af ; hegins. _ ) ~ vouee. I i. _0 ioi mm e could have â€" chosen â€" Gallery are participating in th_e'if;‘{ ' As David says, "I see what |[¢. 1mf) â€"[Fâ€"â€"oo»â€" se l ME U capinetry, but he finds it too second shows at 51 King Street . ( _ happens. I have a vision in my || _ W [ . ]!m 8 EE: j s o BE precise a craft. He‘s freer on the â€" East. 4 8 © head, but sometimes I have to | ~A Goutf Cc mvemaiievemile paker 2 _ _â€" ui {)athe‘ Vessels of the Earth opent® alter it because of flavys” Or. . y J (RARApil nommermmremsmmcne c w . â€" meetnithes Liz can remember taking her . Saturday, Aug. 4 and runs to Sefifi i defects. I have to work with it. Liz Willoughby with her kiln. David Lyon holds kids in their strollers to pottery 23 .: e $ _ Liz‘s exquisite functional Ricreaset Besowe, "the big box bowl". section long before she began The exhibit features finelÂ¥s f j pottery, with its rich, intense, â€" _ j < turning. She would give pottery. . finished big burl pieces, tray$§ ‘ . AlL qo + : o_ ___â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"/ ae gifts. Hinally, she took some . platters, spelted red maple and R f â€"| courses, set up a studio and was piece David refers to as "the bif + > 5. box bowl". Liz brings her vart The two_artists have much. and practical pottery, pieces th v ; ‘ k ; ] more in common, warm the hand and the soul wh J gleven years ago, David gave . they arefilled. :;4'