I spent Thursday over at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby as part of a team loading the soda/salt part of the Ombu wood kiln there. It was nice to spend the day catching up with potters, most of whom I’ve known for quite a few years. Jay MacLennan, technician there, did almost all of the actual loading – bending his tall frame into the kiln entrance to carefully squeeze practically every piece in. About 9 of us are sharing this firing, so we each have maybe 15 pots in there.

During a lull in the loading and chopping of kindling I took myself off for a walk down to Deer Lake where I was told the water lilies are just opening. I took some photos of growing things in the beautiful grounds of the park.

In the Arts Council Gallery preparations were underway for the opening of a show that evening: “…and we call it home”, Juan Contreras. On the outside wall is a new mural.

In my next blog I’ll post some photos of art inside Shadbolt Centre.