Now that Alan is slowly recovering from his surgery I am finding time to get into my studio again. Local artist and TriCity Potter Gay Mitchell asked if she could come and paint any tiles that I have left over from workshops. She has a show scheduled for Gallery Bistro here in Port Moody at the end of November and I believe she'd like some…
It's time to write a catch-up blog. Some of you will know that my husband Alan has spent the summer waiting in line for open heart surgery. Finally on October 14th he reached the top of the list and his quadruple bypass operation at St Paul's hospital, in downtown Vancouver, was successful. He was in CSICU for four days and in a ward for another…
My niece Tasha is a Statistics Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, too far away! Recently when one of her friends mentioned how much fun she is having in beginner pottery classes, Tash told her that her aunt is a potter and somehow four firm friends plotted to leave their husbands and children and fly to Vancouver for a four-day holiday! What a…
Last Friday we decided that my necessary trip out to Greenbarn Pottery Supplies in Surrey would be a good chance to enjoy the delightful Indian Summer we're having just now. Using the Golden Ears bridge over the Fraser it's about half an hour's drive to Greenbarn in North Surrey. After we'd had clay, underglazes, EPKaolin, pottery plaster, stilts, witness cones and wax loaded into the car…
I really hate to throw things away. Like lots of other potters I find many of my tools are repurposed wood, plastic and metal found objects. We lurk in hardware stores, 2nd hand stores and thrift shops to find a gizmo that will do a pottery related job better than the commercially made offerings. Recently I found some excellent knife blades which I'd typically saved - for…