Local clay artist, writer and long-time friend Gloria Barkley made a point of looking for all the potters on ArtWalk. She took photos of us and has written a little account of her wanderings that day. Sadly, Martha, she didn't find time to get to your studio. I invited Gloria to be my first guest blogger. Art Walk 2013 I must stop at the…
One of the first speakers invited to a TriCity Potters meeting, some five years ago, was Vin Arora. At that time he had just been hired to take over teaching and tech duties at Place des Arts from retiring June MacDonald. He was a recent Emily Carr grad at the time. We were so impressed with his enthusiasm for a recent highly influential trip to…
Last Wednesday Fredi Rahn spoke to our group, showing us her hand-building technique and some slides of her work. Fredi studied Ceramics at Sheridan College (Ontario) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since 1990 has taught at Emily Carr University and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. While we tried to figure out projector, laptop computer and memory…
We were lucky with the weather for ArtWalk! On Friday the heavens opened and I thought that all the outdoor events would be spoiled and people would be discouraged from walking. Saturday was merely cloudy and rather cold and I think that there were more events happening down on Queens street so my studio was relatively quiet. But Sunday was a lovely sunny Spring day…
Opening my studio for ArtWalk is a marvellous incentive to tidy and clean up! The space looks amazing. My glaze firing finished very early this morning and I won't be able open it until tomorrow morning so it was a good chance to clear off ledges and arrange my display. I think there are a couple of people who'd like a bird-feeder so I have made…