It was a clay-packed weekend! On Friday evening Linda took June and me over to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for the latest in the NorthWest Ceramic Foundation's series of lectures. Nora Vaillant had studied Leach apprentice and sometime BC resident John Reeve and his influence on West Coast potters for her MA thesis. This talk was a somewhat extended version of the presentation…
Now that the latest firing is done I needed to get some of the work packed up. The three vessels intended for Victoria's Alcheringa Gallery were carefully wrapped in paper and bubble wrap and secured in a box with a handle. Wednesday morning saw me braving the 2nd Narrows bridge to meet up with Robert, who has taken said box on to the sea-bus,…
While I have been waiting for my kiln to be cool enough for me to empty I've been out in the garden. It's time to cut off all those huge hollyhock plants. I couldn't help myself but harvest oodles of their seeds. So if you join us for 'Pottery in Port Moody' next weekend you may take lots of those seeds and we'll have a…
With encouragement from staff at the Gallery of BC Ceramics I have made some bird mugs. Earlier this year I made a few mugs which were not any specific bird, just a jolly combination of greens with white chest and red spots. They have a little beak which is not a spout but otherwise take just as long to make and paint as my jugbirds do. I wondered…
After we'd had a good look at this month's show, From Ashes to Art, at the Gallery of BC Ceramics, we took a good look around the rest of the gallery and Melissa pointed out some of the new artists who've been juried in. Sorry, I didn't get them all recorded but here are some that caught my attention. Amelia Butcher has an intriguing collection of…