interview with BG always interested in art, many with china painters, but not in colleg started with ceramic used to ahve a ceramic store, 10 years, that goes along with china painting almsot dead after depression and wars. older ones died off gain after war? ceramics came first some of the ceramic artsits got interested in china painting. got it going again china paintings buy their blank just the art work just like painters don't weave the canvas. all we do is decorate it in their business they did the moldingh nuy the blanks from good china companies china apitning ahve shows INFORMAL STUDENTS getting expensive to buy the modled china type of woman who becomes china painters anyone who has an itnerest don't need to be an artist goes in cycles need for china apitners again has gottene xpensive average woman with children and new home maybe can't afford it not as many new ones as 10 eyars ago almost a lost art, then boom, I taught for eyars and now I don't care to teach as much only teach oen class now mostly older women now younger women change job and move aorund so much advantage of china apinting, you can ,keep reworking it as your abilities icnrease. yellows rose colelction, yellow rose plates can't tell the difference between new and antiques soft and hard bodied china victorian aptterns lots of them more and more in jewelry getting real modern art nouveau i love beautiful flowers msyelf area, 1ational and international shows judge for: what do you score color, how it is applied, pattern, don'tw ant build up want it smooth composition color combonations do a lot of copying in the beginning, can buy patterns very few people come with the ability to draw well.blanks aren't glazed, app& pattern, paint it then fire it ifre it several tiems add our depth by firing mroe than once add gold work later astart with basic design and add detail to it bnaic piece are molds, you add oall of the additions, like the bills etc of birds protrat I did on a tile harder ot pain on procelain than on canvas one says she would enver sell her work because people would never pay her waht it is worth trying for eyars to be acknowledged as a fine art, critics, call it a craft or a hobby we dont' want that because we feel that it is a fine art. little handicapped girl has supported ehrself by her china painting who decides whether a fine art. accepted by art galleries, not yet lots of us do original work byt new students start to copy show in shows sponsored by the china paitning societies can't really market these hand patiend things and make a profit, can't compete with mass production things sometimes fired 18 times belong to yoru local group, then can afford to bring in outside artists and teachers