It may be because Spring is finally here and we're noticing woodpeckers drumming for a mate, goldfinches cavorting at the feeder and hummingbirds dancing nearby, that I found I'd made a good number of jugbirds for my recent firing, as well as another Egg box. I see three of these around here but clearly not the Puffin! I was determined to get a kiln load…
This Instagram announcement was posted by Western Front, where Eric Metcalfe has his home and studio. western_frontA tradition at Western Front is the awarding of a ceramic platter, made by @gillian.mcmillan and painted by Eric Metcalfe, to a person who has gone above and beyond for the organization in the past year.This year we are happy to recognize the work of our archivist Anna Tidlund,…
It took most of January to get my kiln filled. My second successful cataract operation was two weeks ago today and I'm delighted that my two eyes now see the same colours, distant vision is great and in a couple more weeks I'll get a prescription for near vision. Al and I popped in to Vancouver one day when the pervasive fog had lifted and…
My website has been totally refreshed. Avrom Digance of Web242 https://web242.com designed my first site many years ago and, although we still like the style, he showed me that it was in a narrow, old-style format. Links to the portfolio weren't working any more and I wasn't able to read my blogs from years ago. So now Avrom and his team have moved the…
This evening's blog will be a photo gallery of my final pots of 2021. After I retrieved four pots from the Fraser Valley Potters' Guild holiday firing I fired the remaining teeny plates in my electric kiln.When Marianne came by my studio to pick up her now-four-times-fired Grooved Vase she found that I had finished some more of the jolly teeny plates she'd ordered for…