My little Eagle Jugbird is one of 34 miniature pieces selected for BC Potters Guild's upcoming show BC-in-a-Box 3: The Edge of Here. The show is booked to travel to Red Deer and Medicine Hat, Alberta, Gallery of BC Ceramics and possibly to Seattle. I'm so pleased! There will be an on-line catalogue of all the works available on the Guild website later this summer. Alberta…
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…