Some time ago Port Moody Arts Centre's Kelly Doyle approached me to ask if TriCity Potters would be interested in undertaking another 'challenge' for a good cause. Spoiler alert.. we have been asked to make pendants for inclusion in a 'goody bag' for attendees at the Arts Centre's upcoming fundraiser,'Ladies Night Out' in August. We've already agreed to make flower pots for Amnesty International's Fall…
Last Wednesday we held our last TriCity Potters' meeting of the season. We've been the local group for clay artists for eight years now. To celebrate, as we usually do in June, we shared a special cake! Some members brought along a piece of pottery, either one of their own that they're particularly happy with or a piece that they have collected. These little show-and-tell…
The Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour takes place over the Mothers' Day weekend so artists in the adjacent area to our Tri-Cities had their studios open to the public for Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Having spent much of Saturday morning with our younger son Mike, including brunch on Main Street, and knowing that our older son Steve is completely busy looking after…
Clay artist Ying-Yueh Chuang was our guest at last Wednesday's meeting of TriCity Potters. She gave us a power point presentation that showed us her progress as a student and now professional artist. The photos covered her early experiments with assembling and glazing press-moulded forms and where these ideas have taken her in almost two decades since. Ying-Yueh came to BC from Taiwan…
Chilliwack potter Holly McKeen was our guest at last Wednesday's TriCity Potters' meeting. Holly gave us a Power Point Presentation on her remarkable and speedy career in pottery. She also brought along quite a few pieces of her distinctive crystal-glazed work and finished up with a little demonstration of her method of producing a functional lasagne dish. Only about twelve years ago Holly and her husband…