Bob from Manitoba responded to my blog on the Thomas Kakinuma show at West Vancouver Museum in February: Hi, My name is Bob and I live in Winnipeg Manitoba. I have bought a few pieces of Thomas's pottery around here. Two brown birds with spots on them(1 wings open,1 wings closed). A couple vases about 7" tall(1 birds in flight around it, the other has…
'Tommy' Kakinuma taught some of the founding members of the BC Potters' Guild in the fifties and sixties, in the UBC Pottery Huts. Recently collectors have been finding his pieces in antique shops in Vancouver and wonder who he was. It seems very little has been known about him. Blogger Stacy Reynaud bought a bird pot from John Lawrence of Doda Antiques. John has a…
Just the other day BC potters received very sad news from the BC Potters Guild board's president, Laura Carey. It has been decided that, due to falling numbers of customers at our gallery and ever-increasing rent, the Gallery of BC Ceramics will close at the end of February. The same email invited us to last Thursday's opening for past-president Jinny Whitehead's solo show. It will…