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…
Last Thursday I opened my kiln and lifted warm pots out. Two pots were wanted asap so I drove into Vancouver. Eric Metcalfe was pleased with the vase. It is painted when bone dry with black and 'light red' underglaze over a 'Marigold' slip coating. After bisquing I dipped it in my usual Deb's Clear cone 04 glaze. I hope that the recipient for whom…