Sometimes I forget to just play with my work. Sarah contacted me from Calgary to confess that a soup dish/plate I'd made more than twenty years ago had finally been broken. Her family enjoy the size and shape and could I make another? She knows my work has evolved since then and that I use different clay now. She merely said that she's like two…
Ever since the city of Port Moody built itself a new City Hall at the end of Burrard Inlet I've thought about a piece of art for the circle of grass in front of it. A fine design for its purpose i.e. city administration offices, Council Chambers which also function as a public theatre, and the library, the building was designed to resemble or at least reference a railway…
It seems we're in for a heat wave and I'm worried about keeping the garden watered so that it looks good for visitors on July 19th. This is only the second time Art in the Garden has been held here in the Tri-Cities, the first one was two years ago. As there was no ArtWalk in April this year I decided to offer my garden as a venue…
I just had to record the little surprise I got yesterday when perusing the knick-knack shelves in our local Crossroads Hospice Thrift Shop in Coquitlam. I spotted a familiar cup amongst the pottery - mine! Of course I paid the $2 and brought it home. Twenty -two years ago we were spending a memorable three weeks at Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now ECUAD)…
The day after our TriCity Potters meeting last week I took the long-promised twelve jug birds to Vancouver Airport. As usual Alan took good photos of them so that I have a record of what each gallery has, and also to remind myself of what details I've chosen to apply to each bird design. When I got to YVR I found that the…