During 2022 I've been following the news about firings in the Potters' Guild of BC gas kiln. Funding was secured and the current board purchased a big Bailey kiln from Emily Carr U. Thanks to the enthusiastic manager of the Mergatroid Artists Studio building, Morley Faber, it has now been installed on a levelled, covered concrete pad next to the building. Technicians have been trained,…
At last I found time to take some photos to document my twenty or so pots that made up the two cubic feet of ware we can each bring to a soda firing. I shall be packing up some for Jonathon's Gallery in London, Ontario, some will go in to Circle Craft shop on Granville Island and I may well keep this first carved bowl…
front shelves I had taken my two cubic feet of sprayed, bisqued and wadded ware to the Vault kiln on November 2nd, to join the most recent soda firing. The techs and Giovanna loaded the pots next day. Clive Tucker was at my kiln shed on the Friday to repair my electric kiln (there was corrosion!) and then he headed over to Shadbolt to help…
August kiln load On the last day of August I was finally able to unload glazed pots from the kiln. The plates painted by 'The Raiders' the other day helped to fill it, along with the dozen jugbirds I'd made and stored damp since May! Covid and holiday travels kept me from the studio.I'll post photos of plates painted by my guests first, and below…
Bird Vessel It seems that I find myself constantly using birds as inspiration for my work. In this latest soda firing my pots are either birds or I've drawn them on the surface, using sgraffito.Here are some more angles on the bird vessel. My sister Mary says she has one from a long-ago trip to Peru that has a filling hole underneath so I think…