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chance Walter Dexter’s studio became available. He was moving to Nelson so Jerry Tillipaugh and I bought it. We arrived, put a tent in the front of the barn out in the Okanagan Mission, and went from there.
JH: When was that, Bob? BK: 1967
JH: That seems like a long way back. BK: Yes, about 45 years ago. Mary Ann and I went down the valley a couple of weeks ago – down to that beautiful bookstore in Penticton – and we realized as we drove down that it had been 45 years. I’ve got a lot of work behind me.
JH: Yes. That’s true. And when you recognize that amount of time, it’s time to update our photos and biographies on our websites, isn’t it? BK: Yes – there is that. But I don’t do that kind of thing. I think it’s time to have a lot more fun and be more playful than I have been – settle in and have more fun. There is so much to learn and so much that could be done and so many directions one could go into. Working with clay has given me that focus, but I really haven’t been playful enough over the course of my life.
JH: You’ve been working with masks and wall murals quite a bit over the last few years and some of them I think are extremely playful. When you say you are looking to be more playful, are you talking about your approach to the work itself? BK: Yes, the work itself. I did a whole series of chickens in the last couple of weeks and they gave me a lot of pleasure. They came out of sketches one night and I realized I have a whole bunch of sketch books that I should go through because I possibly may not have had the skills to execute a lot of them. So maybe I’ve just waited for this time – playful in the way of being humorous about
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