Look at what my son Steve has made for me! A skookum cheese-cutter. When I make slab plates in bisqued forms I need a nice sharp wire to cut off the excess clay at a 45 degree angle. Walter Ostrom showed us how to make plates and platters in this way when he taught the 3-week Summer course at ECIAD back in 1993. I've been…
Hornby Island relies on well water so the residents must save all the water they can. What to do with unsightly water storage tanks? Have a competition to enhance them. We started to notice them on our first night on the island and asked why there is a Campbell Soup can beside the road. Public Art can be such fun, and so controversial! Here…
To start our TriCity Potters' meeting last Wednesday June announced the winner of the Peoples' Choice Award. Visitors to "Fantastic Feast" at Port Moody Art Centre voted for their favourite piece in the show, and the winner is Maple Ridge resident and our board member Brigitta Schneiter. Congratulations! Her prize is a tempting basket of gourmet food from local Eden West Fine Foods. Thank you…
Last week seemed to be filled with clay-related activities for me! First thing on Monday several TriCity Potters met at Port Moody Arts Centre to take down "Fantastic Feast". It's so much quicker and easier than getting it set up! The show was well received by the visitors and the box for Peoples' Choice was stuffed to overflowing. So I asked the four members…
We weren't able to go to the opening of this show at Maple Ridge Art Gallery so I'm glad we had the chance to visit it last Friday. "A Life in the Day" in WildRice Studio features the work of New Westminster clay artists Keith and Celia Rice-Jones. They have filled the large gallery with Keith's sculptural pieces and Celia's functional work on the whole.…