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…
A friend and patron sent me this video this evening. These beautiful birds are happily using one of my bird feeders! How happy does that make me feel?! I've posted it here because if I just post it on Facebook it'll disappear eventually and this way I can admire these birds whenever I like. Anybody care to identify les oiseaux? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGep0V7SZ-8&feature=youtu.be
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…
My day ended better than it started. On a wet wet wet day I gloomily looked at my clay and wondered what to make first, and procrastinated! I started on some more regular earthenware jugbird bodies and that's a good thing - because a late afternoon email from Melissa at the Gallery of BC Ceramics arrived. As I mentioned in yesterday's blog I was dying…