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Wayne Tasker Born in Christchurch into an Army family, Wayne spent his childhood making ‘things’. His first efforts at art were at around the age of 10, carving in Pumice, and later making beautiful rings out of brass nuts. Training as an Army Officer in Portsea, Australia put paid to his creativity in the meantime, but this came out in his later years when he left the army to become a Physical Education Teacher. He spent considerable time studying ceramics and pottery back in Christchurch with Valerie Creighton and later the man he considers his Mentor, Lawrence Ewing. In 1985, Wayne opened his own pottery gallery ‘The Pottery and Friends’, in Cashel Street, Christchurch. He moved back to Auckland several years later, to live on Waiheke Island to concentrate on his craft. Moved creatively by Mother Nature, he has translated this into the lovely form of his “Tidepool’ bowls which are surely unique in the pottery world. His Black ‘carved’ smoked Raku pots (Three Koru) are often given as diplomatic gifts by the NZ Government. It is a pleasant surprise to find that they still smell of smoke inside. Wayne presently enjoys the variety of life in several part time jobs which enables him to also be creative in his purpose built pottery shed.
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