October Pots I couldn't wait any longer to see the results of my experiments with the PSH400 earthenware clay, and get the latest jugbirds fired, so this was not a full kiln load. Thank you once again, Shelley, for allowing me to use your fine kiln. Now I can plan a trip in to Granville Island to leave most of these new pots in Circle…
On Thursday I drove over to Port Coquitlam to open Shelley's kiln. Production is slow these days but I felt I had enough finished pieces to warrant bisque and glaze firings now. I have a soda firing to look forward to in the Fall but I was happy to return to my favourite D'Arcy Redart earthenware clay for a month or two. I also wanted…
After attending the presentation by five Taiwanese clay artists at Shadbolt Centre some weeks ago now, I was determined to find JigSpace Gallery in Vancouver to see more of their unusual work. On the day before the show ended Alan and I found the gallery at the south end of Laurel street. https://www.jigspace.ca Yumeng of JigArt kindly emailed me a pdf of the artists' statements so…
On Saturday May 23rd 'Where Form Meets the Boundless' opened at JigSpace Gallery in Vancouver. Five well-known clay artists from Taiwan had travelled here with incredible work and joined four local ceramicists in this show. After the opening their Canadian hosts brought them to Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for a free public presentation by the five. Burnaby resident, our own Amy Li Chuan Chang, told me…
Now that I don't make many pots I tend to consider whether each piece is actually useful. Is the pot destined to be admired on a shelf or will it hold cookies, vegetables, milk, sugar, tea or, most likely in this latest batch, flowers? Even if the pot is decorated, carved or just amusing I'd like to think that it will be used for mashed…