Four 'Raiders' came out to Port Moody to spend the day painting plates last Friday. Eric chose not to come this time, but sent a platter that he'd painted at home to be included in my next firing. It'll be a presentation piece. The artists who've volunteered to provide a plate to form a set of six for this year's February…
Our second album of the Cub trip includes many more images of art, artists, the art school, murals and studios. Tropical climate lends itself to bright colours everywhere. We spent a little while in Cienfuegos Central Plaza, with its restored pre-Revolution buildings, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The theatre is quite spectacular and we learnt that performances take place there regularly. There seems to be…
Shortly after my last post I got the flu AGAIN! What a waste of time that is. But now, half way into January, I'm finally feeling more energetic and have been spending some time in my studio again. The 'Raiders' were scheduled to be here last Friday but I postponed that to this week, partly to really recover but also to allow enough time…
On Saturday December 20th Alan and Eliza came out to Abbotsford with me for the excitement of opening the latest salt kiln firing. Alan took lots of candid shots of our work and reactions so I'll just add an album below. We had lots of good ideas to share and inspiration for the next firing. There's also a link to a new Picasa album of…
One morning, a week before Christmas, found Dave Dobie, Ted Driediger and me, and later Jake Stelpstra, loading the salt kiln out at Herman Venema's country studio near Abbotsford. As Herman had no pots ready for this firing I invited Eliza Wang to participate. She had some pots that could use a little more melting in a salty environment and three of her potpourri pots which…