These are posts about pots and potters seen in England
It was still snowing yesterday as I unloaded my bisque kiln. Three days non-stop is rather unusual for Vancouver. But we could hear the dripping last night and this morning we woke to dry streets and lots of fog and now we have brilliant sunshine. But the lack of winter tyres was enough reason not to drive in to Vancouver last night so I missed…
My pots for Wednesday's salt firing are all wadded and packed into boxes ready for the drive out to Abbotsford tomorrow to load the kiln with Dave Dobie and Herman Venema. Nora Vaillant drove out here today with her mother Judy (who is holidaying in Vancouver from her home in hot Arizona) to leave her pieces for the firing. This will save her one of…
I've prepared another Picasa album. This time it includes all the splendid ceramics I photographed when I was on a brief trip to England last September. Earlier I posted work seen in Cambridge but I never got around to assembling these for you pottery fanatics to see. They certainly make a big contrast to the ancient Mexican work I posted recently. I see the British…
When I was in London I visited Contemporary Applied Arts on Percy Street to see their show domesticMATTERS, which was part of the London Design Festival. Here are some ceramic pieces I enjoyed. Run your cursor across the photo to see the caption. If you can identify the artists for the one or two that I didn't please do so. I then walked down…
Today I am just posting photos of pots I found in Primavera in September. There are earthenware pots and animals by Jennie Hale, salty work by Walter Keeler, Steve Harrison and Jane Hamlyn, abstract colourful jugs by Paul Jackson, large beautiful pieces by Richard Batterham and an amusing sculpture by Tessa Fuchs. The last photo was taken by my brother Bill this week…