On Saturday Al and I went in to Vancouver to attend Renée Van Halm's opening at Equinox Gallery http://www.equinoxgallery.com/exhibitions/. This was our first visit to the gallery's new enormous space in a converted warehouse off Great Northern Way. The area has been divided into two large, very high-ceilinged exhibition spaces. On this afternoon there were two openings, Renée Van Halm: French Curves in the East…
It's good to get back to routine. Just lately I've been trying to get a group of twelve jugbirds ready to take out to YVR. They were ordered before Christmas but I warned Crafthouse that I would bring them in in January. To help fill the kiln we picked up a platter and a plate from Eric at the Western Front on Saturday, en route…
This is our Christmas letter for 2013. Apologies if you've already read it. Our best wishes to all our friends and relatives for the holiday season and the fast-approaching new year. We hope you had a happy and healthy 2013. Here are some brief snippets of ours. Our major event, of course, was the arrival of our grandson, Caleb. I’m including a few pictures, including…
This is just a quick little blog to wish you all a happy Christmas day, wherever you are and however you celebrate it. I like to go for a walk and find pretty Wintery berries and evergreens to make a little decoration. When we were children in Shroton I remember being taken to Everley corner to pick masses of holly to take to the church…
Renée tells me that she took a pottery class many years ago. Certainly she is comfortable working on a curved surface and right away understood how to achieve opaque consistent surfaces. She comes to work for the day prepared with paper collages, carefully cuts out a paper template outlining the plate's shape and places it over her collage. She then draws the composition onto the…