Port Moody Arts Centre/PoMoArts is managing to keep its gallery open in spite of current restrictions on gatherings. Protocols are strictly observed so that when I stopped by one day last week I wore a mask, signed in and hand-sanitized. I was the only visitor to the Blackberry gift shop and the three galleries at that time, but was happy to find ever-enthusiastic gallery manager…
With no particular pressures to make specific pots in May I used my studio time to make anything other than jugbirds. Well, yes there were two. I made a loopy salt shaker just because ours is too small and falls over. I threw yunomis and made slab plates with a plan to use them for colour experiments. There are half a dozen new mugs, with…
Now that the Christmas holiday is over and people are going back to work and school tomorrow I find I'm ready to get into my studio and to see my clay friends again. We enjoyed a super family and friends get-together with 14 of us at Steve and Jen's home in Pitt Meadows for Christmas Day, some good walks when the sun came out and…
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…