Fraser Valley Potters' Guild Annual Juried show takes place at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre every third year. The current show opened on Sunday afternoon and because it is in my neighbourhood this year I managed to get there. On Sunday April 28 Medicine Hat potter Jim Etzkorn juried the show. I'm sorry not to have attended his 'juror's remarks' and taken the chance to say…
Maggi Kneer's show "Around the World in 80 Plates" opened on Thursday May 2nd at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Maggi loves to travel and has visited 60 countries. For this show she has hand-built eighty plates and has applied decals made from her collection of photographs. One could spend a long while with Maggi hearing all the stories that accompany the images. For her they…
Later in the day last Monday I drove in to Vancouver, mainly to help make up numbers for a quorum for Circle Craft's AGM. First I stopped at the Gallery of BC Ceramics to leave some new pieces for them. They now have four more small salt-fired jugbirds from last December's firing and a couple of earthenware plates. Manager Laura phoned me the next day…
Local clay artist, writer and long-time friend Gloria Barkley made a point of looking for all the potters on ArtWalk. She took photos of us and has written a little account of her wanderings that day. Sadly, Martha, she didn't find time to get to your studio. I invited Gloria to be my first guest blogger. Art Walk 2013 I must stop at the…
One of the first speakers invited to a TriCity Potters meeting, some five years ago, was Vin Arora. At that time he had just been hired to take over teaching and tech duties at Place des Arts from retiring June MacDonald. He was a recent Emily Carr grad at the time. We were so impressed with his enthusiasm for a recent highly influential trip to…