This next week promises to be a busy one for local potters, or at least for me. I'd like to get out to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC on Tuesday afternoon to attend the launch of Ceramic Curator Carol Mayer's new book on the Koerner Ceramic Collection. I have taken the invitation below from the BC Potters' Guild newsletter. You are invited to a…
Keith Lehman and Carole Henshall are an item, have shared a studio and a home, are both potters and are in fact, married. They've worked together for Craft Fairs, as a team when it's their turn to staff the Kingsmill Pottery shop and side by side in their shared studio space behind the Gallery of BC Ceramics, on Granville Island. But this is the first time…
Don't forget that tomorrow evening is meeting night for TriCity Potters. 7pm at Port Moody Arts Centre. Please bring one or two pots that you've made or found for a discussion. Are you happy with the glaze, form or idea? Do you want advice on improvements or pricing? Your fellow members will offer suggestions. We'll also have a brief AGM, announcements about upcoming events and…
The latest show at Port Moody Arts Centre is being taken down today. I attended a closing talk last night, presented by the collaborating artists Kathryn Gibson O'Regan and Robert Shiozaki. The show, Creative Conversations, opened the night before I left for England and I hadn't taken the time to pop in to see the show since I returned. I'm pleased to have met both…
Earlier this year Vancouver sculptor Debra Sloan was an artist-in-residence at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives. Debra has taught pottery and sculpture for many years and can certainly make pots on the wheel, but she did not make Leach-inspired pots while she was in Cornwall. It turns out that Bernard Leach did in fact make clay sculpture as well as his writings, wheel-throwing and…