Yesterday I was surprised to open my BC Potters Guild newsletter and see that editor Melany Hallam has used my 'Making Jugbirds' slide show in a little article there. Very nice. After a month or so the newsletters are available to anyone visiting the guild website. www.bcpotters.com click on 'archives' Busy day today. Following up from a press release sent to the…
Inspiration is all around us. Wherever I look there are birds - birds that visit my bird-feeder or are on local lakes and birds that other potters have made. We all make them differently but there's something about the elegant shapes of birds that needs to be interpreted in a three-dimensional way. Sure I may well make a drawing of an elegant Pileated Woodpecker that…
Members of the BC Potters Guild are invited to submit work to a juried show this Fall: BC in a Box Goes to Alberta! In exchange with the Alberta Potters Association, the Potters Guild of British Columbia is pleased to present a juried travelling show for members. Theme: BC in a Box 3 - “The Edge of Here” The attached docx gives more information: …
Today it has been an uncharacteristically cold day for Vancouver. I read in Brendan Tang's note on facebook that it's far colder in Medicine Hat but he posted photos of the artists there working away. The studio must be nicely heated. But I felt connected to that community as I potted today because I was using the Plainsman clay mixture I prepared while there. It's…
When I was on Granville Island last Thursday I popped into the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Apparently I just missed Keith and Celia Rice-Jones who had been doing some touch-up work on the gallery walls. My work is in a new spot, a nice long shelf. I like to take a photo so that I have an idea of what might be suitable to take…