In the previous blog I showed photos of most of the work that was fired in the Shadbolt Centre's Vault Kiln for eleven enthusiastic members of TriCity Potters. There's lots of good colour resulting from a variety of sprayed flashing slips. Some folks thought things were rather grey but that is something to learn about and use or avoid in future firings. Some slips are…
Yesterday morning, as I enjoyed my morning coffee, I watched Jonathon Bancroft Snell opening parcels of pots, filmed by Brian Cooke. It's extraordinary to be able to see and hear reactions and find out how my pieces survived my packing. Meira Mathieson, who has been showing her work at Jonathon's for many years, had also sent a box of new work. Now that…
It's almost two weeks since the exciting day when I returned to Shadbolt Centre to collect my sixteen pots from the latest soda firing. By the time I arrived almost all of the pots had been claimed and my pieces were arranged on a separate table for me. Safety precautions are important so we were given specific time slots to be there. I wore…
Just a week after I'd collected an exciting new selection of pots from a late November soda firing, there was one more chance to fire a couple more. Fraser Valley Potters' Guild, which meets at Kwantlen College in South Surrey, decided to offer a group soda firing at Shadbolt Centre's popular Vault Soda kiln instead of their obviously impossible annual Holiday party. Members were…
Just a week ago I took my two cubic feet quota of pots over to The Vault Kiln at Shadbolt Centre. It was all arranged so that folks could safely spray, glaze and wad their pieces before leaving them on shelves next to the soda kiln. I'd already prepared my pieces in my studio so merely left them in the kiln shed. We were…