I fired my kiln twice this week for bisque and glaze firings. Plates and tiles painted by TriCity Potters and a large plate by Bill Thomson helped to fill it and the top shelves held my latest jugbirds. I've been working with three galleries in mind, but the top priority is Crafthouse YVR who have ordered ten. I must continue to produce because I need a few more…
My local galleries have been neglected lately so I'm pleased to have fired another group of jugbirds in with all the plates painted by my 'Raiders'. Most of the birds will be delivered to the Gallery of BC Ceramics and to Circle Craft Co-op this week and I'll drop off the plates at Eric's home in the Western Front. But taking the time to go in to town is…
The other day I received a message with a photo of a familiar pot. Fellow Emily Carr student from 23 years ago, Beatrix Schalk, had recognized this odd jug in the window of the Burnaby Hastings Salvation Army store! $14.99! I said 'I want it!' and she bought it and delivered it to me here in my studio yesterday. Thank you Beatrix, and it was…
When Alan and I returned from a recent trip to Tacoma, Wash. (where Al attended the North-West Anthropological Conference) it was time to empty the glaze kiln. I had managed to remove two of my bird-feeders while they were still warm, to take down to the States with us for a friend who'd ordered them. Now the rest have been photographed and, apart from two…
Finally there were enough pots to fill the kiln for a bisque firing, thanks to another day of my studio being 'raided' by Vancouver painters. We had a fun day with Philippe Raphanel, Mina Totino and her first-time-here friend Jan Wade. They each painted several plates, with Philippe astonishing us with a variety of layered colours, experimental wax resist again and a final swoosh of thinned underglaze…