After three very busy days I think that hosting 'Art in the Garden' here as one of ten open gardens was very worthwhile. While we had a heat wave I wondered if there would be any colour at all and it was too hot to do garden maintenance except in the evenings. Now that we've had some rain and it's cooler I can relax and enjoy…
It seems we're in for a heat wave and I'm worried about keeping the garden watered so that it looks good for visitors on July 19th. This is only the second time Art in the Garden has been held here in the Tri-Cities, the first one was two years ago. As there was no ArtWalk in April this year I decided to offer my garden as a venue…
I just had to record the little surprise I got yesterday when perusing the knick-knack shelves in our local Crossroads Hospice Thrift Shop in Coquitlam. I spotted a familiar cup amongst the pottery - mine! Of course I paid the $2 and brought it home. Twenty -two years ago we were spending a memorable three weeks at Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now ECUAD)…
In my last glaze firing there was a small vase painted by Eric Metcalfe. He is having fun applying his boldly coloured designs to a 3D form. When I dropped it off at his home in Mount Pleasant's Western Front he showed me a series of gouache paintings which he says have all evolved from his experience painting on my oval plates. The result of…
The day after our TriCity Potters meeting last week I took the long-promised twelve jug birds to Vancouver Airport. As usual Alan took good photos of them so that I have a record of what each gallery has, and also to remind myself of what details I've chosen to apply to each bird design. When I got to YVR I found that the…