Members of the BC Potters' Guild have been invited to submit work for a September show which will illustrate parts of the artist's process. Potters need to know so much about the huge variety of ways of working with clay. Starting with hand-building or wheel-throwing, the potter then needs to understand ways of finishing their work, whether with the use of slips, underglazes and glazes, or…
These three shows opened last Thursday at Port Moody Arts Centre. I was interested to see what Robert Shiozaki and Anya Gusakova had been making since they spoke to TriCity Potters last year ( there's a link to my blog about that below). The main gallery was taken up almost completely with ceramic forms which the…
'Summer of Ceramics' is the title of one of the shows that opened at Port Moody Arts Centre on Thursday. Members of the 'Clay for You' pottery club and their teacher Clay Jung Hong Kim were showing Korean-style pottery in their 12th Annual Exhibition. Korean ceramic master Clay Jung Hong Kim arrived in BC in 2001. Since…
Port Moody Arts Centre's current Ceramic Artist-in-Residence Ray Tse has now completed his year here. Along with supervising the Tuesday Open Studio clay drop-in sessions and teaching pottery classes he has been using his studio in the Arts Centre to make impressive sculptures for his final show. Last January we invited Ray to speak to TriCity Potters and at that time…
On Thursday April 29th there was a very grand event at Port Moody Arts Centre. South Korean-born artist Kwi Am Choi was an active member of the local art community for several years. He opened a little gallery/framing shop in Old Port Moody and showed his 3D paintings at the Arts Centre. He had a small kiln in his gallery where he melted glass to incorporate in…