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JOCK HILDEBRAND IN CONVERSATION WITH
BOB KINGSMILL JOCK HILDEBRAND:
Hi Bob – thank you for joining me. BOB KINGSMILL: Hello Jock – how are you?
JH: Great – Bob I was thinking back to when we met in the Okanagan almost 40 years ago. I was a young art student and you had just set up your practice as a ceramic artist. BK: That’s right. You were just a kid. Toru Fujibayashi was teaching at the college. I arrived in Kelowna in 1967 and I was quite raw … and possibly still am. I had very little, if no art training. But along with Jerry Tillipaugh we bought Walter Dexter’s studio out in the Okanagan Mission.
Bob Kingsmill
JH: Tell me – how did you actually come to be a ceramic sculptor? BK: It was all fluke and serendipity. I was a cub reporter in Winnipeg as a kid and came out of the working class part of Winnipeg. To be taught in the arts was just a foreign concept – as it must be to a lot of kids today. I lived in a boarding house and a woman named Muriel Guest there was a potter. She was a good friend of a guy called Jack Sures who taught for 30 years or more in Regina. She had a spot in Jack’s studio and she introduced me to clay. I was hooked right away and haven’t looked back. It’s been a nice long and rich process. I wish more young people were aware of the arts and could become engaged. Sometimes it’s difficult because you always worry about where the next commission is coming from and your livelihood – but that aside, it’s really pretty rich. So I started in Winnipeg and then by
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