We've just returned from 4 exciting days in Seattle attending NCECA, the biggest Ceramics Conference on the Continent. My Medalta friend Brenda Sullivan flew out from Port Hope, Ontario to drive down with us. We heard that some 400 Canadians joined the roughly 6,000 Ceramic artists attending and certainly lots of BC and Alberta folks drove or flew down. It was a such fun to…
Wednesday evening's meeting of the TriCity Potters was held in my studio/basement because the local schools are on Spring Break. We rented some folding chairs and with a screen and our projector we managed well. 25 people attended to hear our guest Glenn Lewis. He spoke about his two years as a Leach apprentice in St Ives and more about the philosophy of pots and…
As I sort the hundreds of photos from our trip Down Under I thought that the visit to the pottery and railway of Barry Brickell would make a nice Picasa/Google Album. It has too many photos to post here in a blog so just click the link and you should see what a fun day we had on the Coromandel Peninsula. It is half a…
For a number of years Port Moody has had a relationship with the city of New Plymouth in Taranaki province, New Zealand. Both cities have taken the title 'City of the Arts' and exhibitions have been exchanged. I contacted Dale Copeland, an enthusiastic Arts Advocate in Taranaki, and asked about potters there. The New Plymouth Potters' president, Cecily Bull, kindly invited me to visit their…
If you checked my blog during the last 5 1/2 weeks you'll have noticed that I didn't post anything. My apologies. Alan and I have been 'Down Under' all that time, first in New Zealand for over two weeks and the rest of the time in Australia. There are so many memories and many of them will be kept alive by the hundreds of photos…