How can it be August tomorrow? Certainly July has been very Summery, giving us a heat wave for the last little while and I hope August will be fair. But I won't mind if we get a little rain and slightly cooler days. Luckily my basement studio is a reasonable place to work if I plug in a fan. I have bisque-fired all the Raiders'…
It's Monday afternoon in a July heatwave and the work from last Friday's Raid is already bisque fired. I'll be able to take all the plates out of the kiln tomorrow morning and make a start on the glazing. My five visitors were rather productive so the pieces have completely filled the kiln. With stilts for glazed bottoms, I doubt whether everything will get in…
Last Fall thirteen Vancouver area women spent some weeks in Sicily working together in an Art Residency, Graniti Murales. They designed and painted murals on the ancient crumbling walls of the small Medieval town of Graniti. The locals are delighted, and the women vowed to keep in touch with each other and promote each others' work in the future.…
Être Fleur Bleue Malory Tate (Ceramic Artist in Residence 2017/2018) Être Fleur Bleue is a collection of sentimental and romantic ceramic vessels embodying the French expression of “the little blue flower.” These vessels inspire the actions of arranging, gathering, and collecting. I've been looking forward to Malory Tate's year-end show ever since last September when she started her year-long residency in Port Moody Arts Centre.…
My recent two firings didn't contain any of my own work. I finally decided to pay attention to the advice from 'Totally Ceramics' and my pottery neighbour Ysabella and used a commercial glaze. I had been trying to save electricity by firing my red earthenware pots in the same firings as the plates made with Wonder White earthenware but it seems I need to fire…