Sometimes I forget to just play with my work. Sarah contacted me from Calgary to confess that a soup dish/plate I'd made more than twenty years ago had finally been broken. Her family enjoy the size and shape and could I make another? She knows my work has evolved since then and that I use different clay now. She merely said that she's like two…
West Vancouver's Harmony Arts Festival runs from August 1st - 10th this year. Many potter friends had decided to take part so I persuaded my husband that he would like to spend his birthday, yesterday, beside the beach at Ambleside! On yet another really hot day we parked west of the venue and strolled along the beach, towards the music. En route we admired Xwa-lack-tun's…
Last year Circle Craft and the Craft Council of BC put on a first Summer Craft Market and it was held at Jack Poole Plaza next to the new Convention Centre. When it was announced that the event would be offered again this year I decided that I'd really like to go. The weather was perfect today - sunny and not too hot, and the location is…
On the day after Art in the Garden, the Sunday, I joined a group of garden hosts and artists to tour around all the gardens. Of course we hadn't had the chance to see each other's gardens at all. The art had been removed but it was still a great opportunity to see how each gardener has made a personal hideaway. The gardens are behind…
Ever since the city of Port Moody built itself a new City Hall at the end of Burrard Inlet I've thought about a piece of art for the circle of grass in front of it. A fine design for its purpose i.e. city administration offices, Council Chambers which also function as a public theatre, and the library, the building was designed to resemble or at least reference a railway…