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  My website has been totally refreshed. Avrom Digance of Web242  https://web242.com  designed my first site many years ago and, although we still like the style, he showed me that it was in a narrow, old-style format. Links to the portfolio weren't working any more and I wasn't able to read my blogs from years ago. So now Avrom and his team have moved the…

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Soda & Slips

This evening's blog will be a photo gallery of my final pots of 2021. After I retrieved four pots from the Fraser Valley Potters' Guild holiday firing I fired the remaining teeny plates in my electric kiln.When Marianne came by my studio to pick up her now-four-times-fired Grooved Vase she found that I had finished some more of the jolly teeny plates she'd ordered for…

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Ron Love: Whimsy in Wood and Paint

https://pomoarts.ca/exhibitions/whimsy-in-wood-and-paint Ron Love: Whimsy in Wood and Paint Join us  at 7:15 pm on July 22nd for a virtual artist talk with Ron Love on Facebook live. When Ron Love retired from a long and successful career as an architectural illustrator and designer, he wanted to expand beyond his usual painting practice, and explore fresh mediums to use his creative talents. He turned his artistic bent…

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Nicole Ponsart : Places I’ve Never Been

Nicole Ponsart's show at PoMoArts ended in late June and I was able to pop in to see it on its last day. Nicole was a winner of the Arts Centre's Kwi Am Choi scholarship this year and she used the opportunity to show what she's been working on during the last year, as she completed her BFA at Emily Carr University. I had watched…

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Harlequin Duck jug

A special request had me researching duck shapes again. The Harlequin Duck doesn't lend itself to being a tall jug so I opted to make him with three wheel-thrown parts, plus a teeny cone for his bill. These shapes wind up imitating the way a duck walks or swims. Then what is the best way to fill him? I decided to put a filling hole…

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