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A Spark of Life - James Greig, Potter, Man of West and East
Television (Full Length) – 1987
To the potter clay has mystic qualities ... in his hands it will take on shape and colour and beauty and life.– Narrator Jeremy Stephens
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
Our relationship really matured when I joined Jim as a full-time artist.– James Greig's wife Rhondda
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