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…
September is here and suddenly there are masses of activities in the calendar. The Raiders were mostly still away on holiday so we haven't got together recently. I have plates ready for them but have mainly been trying to concentrate on making as many of my own pots as I can and have a firing soon. Linda Doherty…
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…
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…
My favourite piece to come out of my two recent glaze firings is the Pileated Woodpecker Jugbird. In early January I posted a photo of his beginnings and here is a photo of him being painted later. He has a wheel-thrown body, head, legs and neck. Those parts are carefully fitted together and I add his jolly crest, a slot for filling and pouring and a handle, and…