It's almost two weeks since the exciting day when I returned to Shadbolt Centre to collect my sixteen pots from the latest soda firing. By the time I arrived almost all of the pots had been claimed and my pieces were arranged on a separate table for me. Safety precautions are important so we were given specific time slots to be there. I wore…
At 9am this morning I checked in to 'canadianceramics' on Instagram to see what Jonathon Bancroft-Snell was up to. He'd mentioned that there was to be another box opening today. Dressed all, and I mean totally, in red for Valentine's, he unwrapped the dozen teeny red, black and white plates that he'd ordered from me a while ago. As we watched, local London baker Lisa…
Port Moody Arts Centre/PoMoArts is managing to keep its gallery open in spite of current restrictions on gatherings. Protocols are strictly observed so that when I stopped by one day last week I wore a mask, signed in and hand-sanitized. I was the only visitor to the Blackberry gift shop and the three galleries at that time, but was happy to find ever-enthusiastic gallery manager…
Here we are half way into January and so far 2021 doesn't appear to be any different from most of 2020.. horrid. Alan and I are keeping strictly to ourselves with the hope of avoiding Covid19 while we wait to get vaccinated. Now it looks as if our turn for a jab is delayed until later in the Spring. …
Just a week after I'd collected an exciting new selection of pots from a late November soda firing, there was one more chance to fire a couple more. Fraser Valley Potters' Guild, which meets at Kwantlen College in South Surrey, decided to offer a group soda firing at Shadbolt Centre's popular Vault Soda kiln instead of their obviously impossible annual Holiday party. Members were…