The other two artists who had plates in my recent firing were Marlene Madison and Mina Totino. Renee van Halm was here too, working hard all day but in the end decided to leave her pieces to be finished on her next visit. Marlene finished a fairly large platter with oak leaves that she'd started on an earlier visit and…
Most of my most recent firing contained plates and platters painted by the 'Raiders'. These blogs showing each of the underglaze painted plates is our way of keeping a record of the work done here. So in the first of two posts today I'll show the work of Eric Metcalfe, Elizabeth McIntosh and Monique Fouquet. Eric almost always chooses his traditional…
This time last week, while our grandson was napping, I waxed the bottoms of umpteen plates and my few jugbirds ready for glazing the next day. It doesn't seem possible that some of those pots have now arrived in Cambridge! Alan took photos of the finished work on Thursday, I packed them the next day and on Saturday my neighbours, sisters, flew to England for…
What a busy week Tony Clennell has had since arriving here in BC a week ago today! After horrendous flight delays from Ontario he stayed in Vancouver, at Fredi's, the first night. Then he spent Tuesday at Shadbolt Centre preparing for the Wednesday start-up of his Wood-firing workshop, and wound up chez McMillans that night. We've hardly seen him since except for the odd meal…
We are enjoying having Tony Clennell as a house guest this week. He is giving several workshops at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby. https://www.burnaby.ca/Things-To-Do/Arts-and-Heritage/Shadbolt-Centre-for-the-Arts/Arts-Programs/Ceramics/Workshop--Ceramics-with-Tony-Clennell.html Yesterday and today he had a group of wood-firing keeners glazing their pre-bisqued work and loading the kiln. I believe he has volunteers to start the big new wood kiln early tomorrow morning. So there'll be 36 hours of…