What a fine excuse to take an overnight trip to beautiful Saltspring Island! I was delighted to be selected a finalist for Salt Spring Island Ceramic Awards 2018, 'Makers in Action'. Two years ago Salt Spring Potters Guild invited Vancouver Island and Gulf Island residents to submit entries but this year they invited clay artists from anywhere in the province to send images of up…
On our last evening on Vancouver Island Alan and I stopped in Courtney. We found 'The Potters' Place' gallery just as it was closing so had a quick look around and met that day's volunteers Joe and Helen Stefiuk. Thanks for staying open a bit late for us, Joe and Helen. We drove to the outskirts of the town to find Lesley Norris' charming rural…
The scheduling of a clay-related event at Vancouver Art Gallery led to a standing-room-only crowd of pottery folks in the Annex workshop on Saturday afternoon January 14th. I got to the room quarter of an hour early and found one of the last empty chairs. Al and I took the new skytrain line from Port Moody Centre station and strolled over from the Bay exit. It's so…
The other artists working here a couple of Fridays ago, during a Christmas Raid, were Eric Metcalfe, Mina Totino, Rebecca Brewer and Philippe Raphanel. Trips out here have to be coordinated with teaching commitments at Emily Carr U or SFU so the group varies depending on who is free. Allyson Clay couldn't join us as she still had too much marking to do and Elizabeth…
Shortly after my last post I got the flu AGAIN! What a waste of time that is. But now, half way into January, I'm finally feeling more energetic and have been spending some time in my studio again. The 'Raiders' were scheduled to be here last Friday but I postponed that to this week, partly to really recover but also to allow enough time…