The other day we were in Vancouver to help our son celebrate his 35th birthday. We found him some Danish Modern chairs in a New Westminster 2nd-hand store. Mike's collecting that era furniture for his old apartment and seemed delighted with our find. There are 4 armless dining chairs to match. Then we went down to Granville Island. People like the salty mugs at the…
I started to write a blog because I knew that my June month at Medalta would be interesting every day - for me, for other potters and for my friends and family. It was! Now that I'm back at home in Port Moody I have started back at my usual pottery but I'm also giving myself permission to try to control my garden and enjoy…
This is the article I wrote for Circle Craft Co-operative to thank them for the Residency scholarship. BC Potters Guild has published it in their August newsletter. The illustrated article is too big a file to add here so I'll put in the text and add some pics afterwards. This June will bring back happy memories for a long time. Salt-glazed Sewer Pipes: My Inspiration…
Some of the new pots are now displayed in the window of Circle Craft Co-operative on Granville Island, Vancouver with work by Debra Sloan. She was an Artist-in-Residence for 13 weeks in Hungary and also received a scholarship from Circle Craft. http://www.debrasloan.com/blog/ The Gallery of BC Ceramics also has some salty jugbirds - but they want more of my regular colourful earthenware birds soon. Five…
I've been home for two weeks now and I haven't opened the bag of earthenware clay to start work again. Tomorrow... For the last week we've been billetting Vince Pitelka while he gave a 'coloured clay' workshop at the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby - about 15 mins from here. Al and he had long conversations about pots and archaeology. Nice.We also talked about salt firing.…