I love getting emails from my website! This morning someone from England sent me a photo of an Eagle jugbird he’d bought at a shop in SW London. It was originally shown at the now-closed Candover Gallery in Alresford, Hants in an ‘Animals’ show. You don’t often get any news of old friends from your studio after they’ve left. Happy!

Another exciting piece of news is that Jeremy Waller of Primavera Gallery in Cambridge, England has said ‘Go for it!’ and bring and/or send some jugbirds for a display there in September! I had been considering attending one of those ‘significant’ school reunions also in September so now I have two reasons to make the trip, plus visit my two English siblings. This is a splendid reason to select a dozen or so special but not-too-big pieces. I had hoped that two or three could be my salt-glazed jug birds but I don’t see any possibility of having some fired between now and September. I chatted with Vincent Massey at the opening of ‘Table Salt’ last Saturday and, bless him, he says I may work towards putting some work in his next firing which is planned for sometime in September.

And I am grateful to Sue Taylor of Courtenay for putting some ‘refires’ in her recent salt firing. A second dose of salt on some pots which were fired in the lower mainland last year has much improved them. I took this one in to the Gallery of BC Ceramics last week. 

If you know of anybody in BC who fires with gas and at least 22 lbs of salt and would include some of my work please let me know.

Meanwhile my electric kiln contains a glaze firing which will end tomorrow morning. That’s another whole story.. I shall be anxious to see lovely smooth bright pots on Thursday.