Blogs about art in Port Moody
I have been using wetted paper as a stencil between layers of coloured slips. The design can be an intricate image, or merely torn strips as Raider Pierre Coupey has done. I decided to cut random angles in the sides of my strips of newsprint and then experiment with two or three possibilities for the overlaid slip. Porcelain slip on an earlier plate was pleasing.…
This is my last chance to take a look at my new bird friends before I wrap them and nestle them into a padded box for their long flight to England. Some of these are brand new designs so I'm glad to have a photographic record. That way I don't have to re-think which colours go where to give my best interpretation of a particular…
This time next week I'll be in London, preparing to take myself off to Cambridge on Saturday. That little expedition has been my impetus for work for the last few weeks. I told the Raiders that I needed to concentrate on getting a big batch of jugbirds completed before making any more slab plates for them to paint. Just this week I unloaded the glaze…
Once again the 'Clay for You' Korean Potters Group have filled two galleries at Port Moody Arts Centre with their fine traditional Korean pottery. Led by master potter Clay Jung Hong Kim, with much assistance from his skilled wife Sylvia, the Clay for You group has grown from strength to strength in the twenty or so years since the pair decided to continue their ceramics…
One of two Kwi Am Choi Scholarship recipients, Amiee Risby has completed her third year towards a BFA at Kwantlen University, Surrey. Her instructor there, Ying Yueh Chuang, sent invitations to the clay community to support Amiee at her first solo show. Amiee has fabricated life-size, hollow body parts from clay and has added disconcerting,…