After spending the summer getting ourselves settled into our new townhouse, and enjoying a Vancouver Island holiday with family, I was delighted to start making pots again. The little downstairs bedroom now has a vinyl floor and houses my wheel, a work table and the slab roller and makes a fine studio. Thanks to TriCity Potter Max Yang's Coquitlam kiln I was able to bisque…
TriCity Potters meet once a month, from September to May, in the Appleyard Room at PoMoArts. Last Wednesday, after a very brief AGM, we settled down for an interesting and well-planned talk by Vancouver potter and teacher, Markian Kyba. Do check this link to learn more about Markian. https://www.markiankybaceramics.com/about A selection of Markian's pots for us to hold and admire. A raku firing at the…
Today's blog is intended as an homage to our old home of 54 years and a way of marking an intense six months. We are now getting settled into our new home and I finally have time to enjoy my new studio and assemble these photos to tell our story. I sent out this funny little lino print when we bought our first house, here…
Port Moody's current Ceramics Artist-in-Residence Azadah Mehryar's year-end show opened at PoMoArts on Thursday July 17th. We enjoyed her presentation to TriCity Potters back in May and were looking forward to seeing the work she has selected for 'Odyssey of the Rooted Self'. She and the other two artists currently featured in the galleries were interviewed at the opening by gallery manager Kate Feltren as a…
Written in Clay: From the John David Lawrence Collection May 25 to November 9, 2025 "Written in Clay presents a history of ceramics made in British Columbia told through the collection of John David Lawrence. Featuring approximately 200 objects, it examines the materials and processes artists utilized in relation to the context in which studio ceramics arose and developed in the region." We received two…