First time Raider Jan Wade jumped right in to painting her plates, confidently covering four in no time! She decided to limit her palette to mainly black and white, having worked with lots of bright colours on the previous day. She tells me that she has often painted with found objects, particularly Thrift Store wooden bowls so she is familiar with…
Just for the record I like to post photos of work painted by my 'Raiders'. I left the most recent finished plates with Philippe at ECU the other day. He headed off to catch the bus, swinging his three new plates in a carrier bag, looking forward to studying his work once he got home. The layering of colours on his three is quite delicious.…
When Alan and I returned from a recent trip to Tacoma, Wash. (where Al attended the North-West Anthropological Conference) it was time to empty the glaze kiln. I had managed to remove two of my bird-feeders while they were still warm, to take down to the States with us for a friend who'd ordered them. Now the rest have been photographed and, apart from two…
The NorthWest Ceramic Foundation's featured speaker on Thursday night was Allan Collier from Victoria. Allan is a furniture designer-maker, teacher, collector and curator and the topic of his talk was 'BC Pottery 1920-1950.' We knew there were potters working here in the province's early days but Allan has made collecting of any pottery from this period and research on the makers his particular passion. He…
Carole Epp Work by Carole Epp (of "Musing About Mud") . Her show runs March 31 to April 30 at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Opening Reception: Thursday, March 31, 5 to 7 p.m. We're pleased to announce our next exhibition, "Ode to the Unsung" a solo exhibition by Carole Epp. We're very excited to be able to host Carole's work for almost the…