Just the other day BC potters received very sad news from the BC Potters Guild board's president, Laura Carey. It has been decided that, due to falling numbers of customers at our gallery and ever-increasing rent, the Gallery of BC Ceramics will close at the end of February. The same email invited us to last Thursday's opening for past-president Jinny Whitehead's solo show. It will…
There hasn't been a 'Raid' in my studio since December but I knew there were folks just waiting for me to get some more slab plates made for another painting get-together. During January I enjoyed myself throwing some off-the-hump yunomis, some three-colour pieces and half a dozen stoneware pots. The latter were triggered by Fredi Rahn's January talk to Tri-City Potters when she discussed clay,…
Back in 1973 Alan and I hiked with our newborn son Steve three miles out to Ozette Archaeological site and camped there with the crew. Ozette is on the remote North-Western tip of Washington State, on the Pacific Coast of the Olympic Peninsula. Al had met one of the crew members, Dale Croes, when they were on a dig in Prince Rupert, BC in…
For the last three months local ceramics whiz-kid Brendan Lee Satish Tang has been an artist-in-residence at Burrard Arts Foundation, as well as teaching Foundation Ceramics at Emily Carr U. He is currently showing the resulting work in the BAF Gallery at 108 East Broadway, Vancouver along with fellow artist Lucien Durey. The Opening Reception was on Thursday January 11th, one of those truly dreadful…
After I had attended the two artist's talks at Burrard Art Foundation on Broadway last Saturday I noodled around Main Street for a while. I've been looking for a chance to see some of the local murals. They really are a charming way to brighten up bare brick or concrete walls. IMG_5114 IMG_5113-4 Some are almost a block long…