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…
As I walked over the hill on St Andrews Lane, towards the Arts Centre, I faced fierce dark clouds and an impending shower but there, over downtown Port Moody was a rainbow. It seemed to add to the celebrations taking place in the gallery. When I arrived there was a large crowd of Art patrons, this time mainly local Koreans. The Korean Cultural Heritage Society…
'Summer of Ceramics' is the title of one of the shows that opened at Port Moody Arts Centre on Thursday. Members of the 'Clay for You' pottery club and their teacher Clay Jung Hong Kim were showing Korean-style pottery in their 12th Annual Exhibition. Korean ceramic master Clay Jung Hong Kim arrived in BC in 2001. Since…