There was a good turn-out of members for TriCity Potters' meeting last night. After having lots of people come to hear Brendan Tang last month I asked that we be given a bigger room in future. Sandra Niven has arranged for us to meet in the downstairs room of the new/old addition, with the adjacent concrete-floored lower atrium room available if we need it. So…
This next week promises to be a busy one for local potters, or at least for me. I'd like to get out to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC on Tuesday afternoon to attend the launch of Ceramic Curator Carol Mayer's new book on the Koerner Ceramic Collection. I have taken the invitation below from the BC Potters' Guild newsletter. You are invited to a…
There were seven of my jugbirds in that firing of all the plates. As Don Hutchinson and I chatted at the opening of 'Two for Joy' I asked him how he could be giving up making pottery after all these years. But after a career teaching at Langara and then continuing as a partner in Bob Kingsmill's pottery shop for another decade after that,…
Keith Lehman and Carole Henshall are an item, have shared a studio and a home, are both potters and are in fact, married. They've worked together for Craft Fairs, as a team when it's their turn to staff the Kingsmill Pottery shop and side by side in their shared studio space behind the Gallery of BC Ceramics, on Granville Island. But this is the first time…
On my way in to Granville Island on Wednesday afternoon I stopped in at the Western Front to drop off all the finished plates and to have a cuppa with Eric Metcalfe. Paul Mathieu arrived soon after, having cycled up from Emily Carr U after teaching his class. Both were jumping-up-and-down anxious to see their finished work! Renée,…