Tickets are all gone for tonight's fundraising event. TriCity Potters donated 163 (at last count) bowls to be used for this supper. Guests will find a napkin-wrapped bowl at their place, donated appies, bread and other snacks. The bowl will be filled with choice from two vegetarian soups and can then be taken home afterwards. We are told there will be entertainment, silent auction and…
Yesterday I was surprised to open my BC Potters Guild newsletter and see that editor Melany Hallam has used my 'Making Jugbirds' slide show in a little article there. Very nice. After a month or so the newsletters are available to anyone visiting the guild website. www.bcpotters.com click on 'archives' Busy day today. Following up from a press release sent to the…
Inspiration is all around us. Wherever I look there are birds - birds that visit my bird-feeder or are on local lakes and birds that other potters have made. We all make them differently but there's something about the elegant shapes of birds that needs to be interpreted in a three-dimensional way. Sure I may well make a drawing of an elegant Pileated Woodpecker that…
Members of the BC Potters Guild are invited to submit work to a juried show this Fall: BC in a Box Goes to Alberta! In exchange with the Alberta Potters Association, the Potters Guild of British Columbia is pleased to present a juried travelling show for members. Theme: BC in a Box 3 - “The Edge of Here” The attached docx gives more information: …
Today it has been an uncharacteristically cold day for Vancouver. I read in Brendan Tang's note on facebook that it's far colder in Medicine Hat but he posted photos of the artists there working away. The studio must be nicely heated. But I felt connected to that community as I potted today because I was using the Plainsman clay mixture I prepared while there. It's…