Blogs about art in Port Moody
While I have been waiting for my kiln to be cool enough for me to empty I've been out in the garden. It's time to cut off all those huge hollyhock plants. I couldn't help myself but harvest oodles of their seeds. So if you join us for 'Pottery in Port Moody' next weekend you may take lots of those seeds and we'll have a…
On the morning after we returned from an eventful holiday on Vancouver Island I happily unloaded the latest glaze firing. For once the kiln contained only my work! Now most of these new jugbirds have been delivered to Granville Island, to Circle Craft Co-op where I had NONE left, and to the Gallery of BC Ceramics. I'll post…
My recent glaze firing was small because I wanted to have sample tiles of some underglazes ready for the next 'Raid' of painters who were here the other day. But for those folks who said they would like to see some of my recent plates after glaze firing, here you are! I painted a square plate with geometric shapes based on those I'd applied to…
Here we are almost at the end of April so it's time to do a catch-up blog. I've just been poddling along, painting the odd plate and some jugbirds and more importantly researching glaze recipes for cone 04 white clays. It's been a record-setting rainy month so we grab the chance to do some gardening or I load a kiln when the sun comes out. Happily Easter Day…
The opening of TriCity Potters' show 'A Celebration in Clay' was last Thursday evening, in Port Moody Arts Centre. We are celebrating our first ten years with five pieces from each participating member. There was no theme, we were simply asked to submit our selected best. To give the show some cohesion it was decided that we would also acknowledge the local area's natural…