I've been looking forward to attending the opening of the current show at West Vancouver Museum for quite a while. Burnaby Mountain resident Dorothy Doherty and I drove the roughly one hour to West Vancouver and found the museum in a charming stone house. The museum's mission is to promote art, design and culture, and not, as I had slightly expected, to showcase local history.…
Four of us decided to travel in to Vancouver and Burnaby together last Thursday evening. That way we only needed one parking spot on Granville Island. June MacDonald drove Ysabella Choung, Dorothy Doherty and me. Dorothy and I have pieces in the Gallery of BC Ceramics's current member show 'Testing.. Testing 123' and we met up with Keith and Celia Rice-Jones as we entered. They…
Members of the BC Potters' Guild have been invited to submit work for a September show which will illustrate parts of the artist's process. Potters need to know so much about the huge variety of ways of working with clay. Starting with hand-building or wheel-throwing, the potter then needs to understand ways of finishing their work, whether with the use of slips, underglazes and glazes, or…
This must be the hottest day of the year, at 35C, and I am SO glad my kiln isn't in our house! A glaze firing for three pieces has just ended and it's 6pm. What electrical extravagence, but the Gallery of BC Ceramics staff have invited me to bring in some work for the upcoming members' show, titled 'Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3..' which opens next…
These three shows opened last Thursday at Port Moody Arts Centre. I was interested to see what Robert Shiozaki and Anya Gusakova had been making since they spoke to TriCity Potters last year ( there's a link to my blog about that below). The main gallery was taken up almost completely with ceramic forms which the…