The latest Canadian Clay Symposium took place at the Shadbolt Centre, as usual, on March 21st, and it's taken this long for me to sort my photos and put together my experience of a super weekend. On the Friday evening Jesse Birch of Nanaimo AG gave the keynote speech at the Emily Carr U campus. He spoke about ways of sharing ceramic collections with gallery…
Some months ago I began to notice wonderful painted porcelain mugs showing up on Instagram. Lori Elling's work is unique in many ways. She cheerfully applies oodles of underglaze patterns, but the interesting thing is that they are broken up by raised shapes, left uncoloured. When I noticed that she is one of the latest artists whose work has been juried into the Circle Craft…
TriCity Potters meet once a month, from September to May, in the Appleyard Room at PoMoArts. Last Wednesday, after a very brief AGM, we settled down for an interesting and well-planned talk by Vancouver potter and teacher, Markian Kyba. Do check this link to learn more about Markian. https://www.markiankybaceramics.com/about A selection of Markian's pots for us to hold and admire. A raku firing at the…
At our November TriCity Potters' meeting we learned of Ilena Lee Cramer's enthusiasm for Wild Clay. Most of us work with clay that has been processed and mixed to specific requirements and pugged, bagged and boxed for us. But Ilena is fascinated with the properties of locally found clay, here in BC. With funding from a unique artists residency from St andrews Wesley United Church…
