On Saturday March 23rd I accompanied fellow potters Carlene, Kay and Eliza for the 1 1/4 hour drive out to Chilliwack for the opening of Fraser Valley Potters Guild's annual juried show. I haven't been attending meetings for many years but as a founding member I am honoured to have lifetime membership. Kay invited me to participate this year and I agreed, seeing I had…
The coastal shoreline is a unique place where land and ocean overlap. When the conditions are right, the persistent and unyielding tidal forces can carve hollows and divots into the bedrock itself. Groupings of these sculptural rock formations are called Tafoni. from Brent Comber. While holidaying together on a Gulf Island five artist friends realized that they needed to put their work together in a…
Last year Pulp Fiction Bookshop owner and ceramics collector Chris Brayshaw made a pilgrimage to Wales to meet highly-respected clay artist Charles Bound. Now he has assembled a large number of Bound pieces to form a first show of his work in Canada. It can be seen at CSA Space, upstairs from the bookstore. You need to ask for the key at the store's front…
The weather was perfect for this year's Eastside Culture Crawl, with no rain or snow. Alan and I chose to drive in to Vancouver on Friday evening to begin crawling. The annual Visual Arts, Design and Crafts Festival is now enormous so we made a list of studios to visit on our first planned crawl for this year. I had hoped to post my blog…
There were many ceramics shows organized around the Lower Mainland to coincide with 'STOKED', the Canadian Ceramics Symposium. A one-day pop-up, 'Sur La Table' was hosted by the Potters Guild of BC on March 25th, the actual day of the symposium at Shadbolt Centre. Members were invited to bring along plates and of course I took photos of many. It's time to let you see…