The current show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics 'Put a Bird On It' is open to all BC Potters' Guild members. The slightly fanciful title of the show refers to a quotation from the popular TV show, Portlandia. I gather that it's an often mentioned suggestion for marketing! But it has allowed us to produce slightly silly creations for this show. Certainly it seemed…
Opening the kiln the other day was, as usual, rather exciting. Not only did it contain the tiles painted by TriCity Potters but there were a dozen of my jugbirds in it too. The freshly mixed glaze behaved properly. I set the end 'soak' for 30 mins this time to try to make sure there were no bubbles from the melting, and no, there weren't.…
West Vancouver's Harmony Arts Festival runs from August 1st - 10th this year. Many potter friends had decided to take part so I persuaded my husband that he would like to spend his birthday, yesterday, beside the beach at Ambleside! On yet another really hot day we parked west of the venue and strolled along the beach, towards the music. En route we admired Xwa-lack-tun's…
Last year Circle Craft and the Craft Council of BC put on a first Summer Craft Market and it was held at Jack Poole Plaza next to the new Convention Centre. When it was announced that the event would be offered again this year I decided that I'd really like to go. The weather was perfect today - sunny and not too hot, and the location is…
After three very busy days I think that hosting 'Art in the Garden' here as one of ten open gardens was very worthwhile. While we had a heat wave I wondered if there would be any colour at all and it was too hot to do garden maintenance except in the evenings. Now that we've had some rain and it's cooler I can relax and enjoy…