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A Spark of Life - James Greig, Potter, Man of West and East
Television (Full Length) – 1987
I have always approached my work as an imaginative adventure of exploration — trying to develop living forms which point to the “life in life” in flowing movement. All the manifold forms in living nature arise from movement — there are no fixed forms there — all is in living metamorphosis...– Greig expresses his artistic philosophy in a 1980 piece for a Wairarapa Arts Centre exhibition
To the potter clay has mystic qualities ... in his hands it will take on shape and colour and beauty and life.– Narrator Jeremy Stephens
Our relationship really matured when I joined Jim as a full-time artist.– James Greig's wife Rhondda
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