This was the day to make a final delivery of pots to Circle Craft to top up my stock there before Christmas. I had a drop-off appointment for 2.30pm. We woke to two inches of wet snow and I don't relish driving in that, but it was melting and I risked it. It was sleeting when I stopped off at the Western Front to deliver…
Tyler Fritz' Instagram handle is 'fortheloveofmudd' and, while following his posts, I discovered that he seems to have an enormous selection of historic pots. It turns out that his main interest is the finding and marketing of all things Mid-Century Modern and along with his research on those paintings, prints and furnishings he has come across lots of secondary market ceramics from that period. Thomas…
Tam Irving's latest solo show opened at VisualSpace Gallery in Vancouver last Saturday. The only Art Show opening I attended last year was Tam's show in the same venue so I was interested to see what he has been working on since then. It turns out that Tam has abandoned, probably permanently, wheel-throwing in favour of hand-built slab work for 2D images. There are…
I've changed my mind about Kintsugi. I have felt that if a pot was broken, cracked, chipped or flawed it should be smashed and added to the shard pile. The amateur gloppy gold-painted kintsugi-wannabe repairs that seem to be currently acceptable, just don't do it for me. But now I've seen the work of Naoko Fukumaru and understand how an expert can repair and…
After a great five-night family holiday on Saltspring Island, Alan and I took the ferry on to Vancouver Island for a further four nights. Our first stop was in Nanaimo where we found its Art Gallery, met the curator and potter Jesse Birch and spent some time with the current show, We Do Not Work Alone. Of course this Ceramics show has been on my…