The first photo here is from our first day in London. We walked over the Hungerford Bridge, stopped in Trafalgar Square and photographed this splendid ship-in-a-bottle and hiked on up to Jane Hamlyn's Private View. I always feel happy to be back in London, I was there for 3 years as a student, taught in Bristol for 1 1/2 yrs, returned to London to teach…
At the end of last week I was working very hard to finish assembling and slip-painting 10 earthenware jugbirds as well as make a decent number of pieces to put in Cathi Jefferson's kiln next weekend. A dozen or so mostly Fraser Valley members will meet at Cathi's, prepare their work and load the salt kiln. It will be turned on at the crack of dawn…
Last Wednesday was the final meeting of the year for TriCity Potters. We were pleased to have about 15 people there seeing it was also the actual Stanley Cup final game. But as it turned out those who came don't particularly care for hockey and we were all better off not watching Vancouver's debacle and the shenanigans afterwards. To celebrate our first four years in…
To continue the postings about our time in Europe in May I will post photos of the other pots I saw when I was in the Contemporary Ceramics Centre for Jane Hamlyn's opening. Again, I expect my text will become separated from the relevant photo so just click on it for info. I photographed ceramic work that appeals to me so there's earthenware, sculpture, hand-built…
It's a rainy day today so I'm not tempted to be out in the garden. My clay work began with my inserting spouts in the 4 earthenware jugbirds I threw on Saturday. They'll firm up overnight. Then I threw some candle-holders to reaquaint myself with how I used to do that. Wednesday's TriCity Potters' meeting will focus on the making, either by throwing or hand-building,…