It was a clay-packed weekend! On Friday evening Linda took June and me over to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for the latest in the NorthWest Ceramic Foundation's series of lectures. Nora Vaillant had studied Leach apprentice and sometime BC resident John Reeve and his influence on West Coast potters for her MA thesis. This talk was a somewhat extended version of the presentation…
The last few days illustrate how my life is a blend of pottery-related activities, household stuff and days when family is top priority. Last Thursday I finished applying terra sigillata to the undersides of all my pots, fast-dried some still slightly damp plates in my convection oven (on 'warm'), loaded the kiln for the bisque firing and turned it on. We'd set aside Friday for…
A few weeks ago Vancouver ceramic artist David Robinson was the presenter for our April TriCity Potters' meeting. David is a wildly popular teacher of children's clay classes at Place des Arts, in Coquitlam and he says that working with children is a real pleasure. Adults, not so much. He gave us a charming presentation on his life so far, from a hippie childhood in…
After all the excitement of the Clay Symposium at Shadbolt Centre last month I've found that things have been quiet in the ceramics community lately. I'll post photos of what I've been up to later. But I did go to the BC Potters Guild AGM on Monday March 20th at the Gallery of BC Ceramics and was happy to meet Ying-Yueh's friend Juliane Shibata who teaches at Carleton…