That’s odd. The last Raid I hosted was on February 17th 2025. No wonder so many of the underglaze jar-lids were stuck on solidly! Renée, Karen, Monique and Cathy brought along rubber gloves and lid-opening gizmos to help out, when they came to paint plates once again on Monday.
This is the first time I’ve invited others to work in/out of my new little studio. I borrowed a folding table and a tarp (to protect the carpet) from my neighbours. Thank you Alison and Peter. I had a few bisque-fired slab plate blanks for the painters but had also made some more bigger ones so they were bone dry. We’ll have to be very careful transporting them to a likely kiln.
As always happens, these lovely artists brought along tasty contributions for our lunch. Alan and I are spoilt! Monique Fouquet baked another of her splendid spinach quiches, Cathy Busby rustled up a carrot/ginger salad and Renée Van Halm sourced a big baguette and yummy cheeses. Karen Henry had baked us a decadent fruit Clafoutis served with cream for our tea time!
My effort is slip-painting and paper resist on a D’Arcy clay slab plate. It will be much lighter when dry and fired. The bone dry plates are now resting on a towel in their moulds to protect them for travel.
As the Raiders left for their hour-long drive back to Vancouver Karen took this photo of us and the Attic Project print. She’ll show it to Eric so that he’ll know we’re still enjoying the Raids he and I started some two decades ago.
Now I shall attend TriCity Potters meeting tomorrow evening. I’ll see who will allow me a bisquing opportunity this time. Also I’ll ask if anybody has D’Arcy Redart clay I can buy. Only this week did I discover that the clay I adopted for my earthenware work in 1993 is no longer being imported by Greenbarn Pottery Supply. What can I do?
