Celia Pickles has invited me to participate in her 'Crackerjack' Crafts Sale Event, to be held at 'The Music Box' in West Vancouver. So that is my current goal. She wants a group of jugbirds to be delivered to the venue on Friday November 11th. The Artists' Reception will be that evening and the show will be open for the following two days. I see…
Keith and Celia Rice-Jones of 'Wild Rice' studio were presenters at Wednesday's meeting of TriCity Potters. They gave us a power point presentation telling some of the story of their journey in clay. Members were fascinated to see how the studio and kiln were built on their New Westminster property and how two people whose work is very different work side by side. They use…
The other day Al went to Horseshoe Bay to meet up with artist Patrick Amos. Pat had made a Whaler's Moon Mask for him. It is a fine addition to our collection of North-West Coast artwork and particularly special to Alan. He's spent almost of his professional life as an archaeologist on digs in Nuu-chah-nulth territory, either in Port Alberni, Barkley Sound or off Ucluelet…
I've kept two larger jugbirds here for now. One is really Christmassy and the other is shades of turquoise. Now I must get serious about making some ordered for YVR and designing a large bird mug for a carpenter in partial payment for work here.
Some people use their jugbirds for milk and have asked me to make a sugar container to match. My recent batch of work included jugbirds, each of which has a sugarpot painted to coordinate with whatever bird it is. Alan tried out our new photo lightbox for these photos. The depth of field is good but now…