I recently attended the opening of Fired Identity, a show of work by Greater Vancouver Chinese Canadian Artists in Clay. It was co-curated by Kwantlen University instructor Ying Yueh Chuang and Jean Paull. Participating artist and local potter friend Eliza Wang invited me, with the treat of being driven all the way down to Kwantlen Polytechnic University by her daughter Audrey. Eliza was delighted to…
Twelve of Eric Metcalfe's gouache paintings have recently been installed at his Dogwood Care Home. You are invited. I wasn't able to join his many Western Front colleagues for the tea-party launch. But when his good friend Paul Mathieu invited me to accompany him on another tea-time visit to Eric on Friday we made a point of seeing the splendid display in the care home's…
That's odd. The last Raid I hosted was on February 17th 2025. No wonder so many of the underglaze jar-lids were stuck on solidly! Renée, Karen, Monique and Cathy brought along rubber gloves and lid-opening gizmos to help out, when they came to paint plates once again on Monday. Raiders concentrating on their work creative mess This is the first time I've invited others to…
Even though I've made jugbirds since 2003 it seems people still expect me to have some on hand. So I started my minimal production of 2026 by throwing half a dozen jugbird bodies. It takes several days to add spouts/beaks and eyes, paint with coloured slips, dry and then bisque fire them. Here is the current flock. Someone has asked for a Pileated Woodpecker. They…
Some months ago I began to notice wonderful painted porcelain mugs showing up on Instagram. Lori Elling's work is unique in many ways. She cheerfully applies oodles of underglaze patterns, but the interesting thing is that they are broken up by raised shapes, left uncoloured. When I noticed that she is one of the latest artists whose work has been juried into the Circle Craft…