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.…
Here are photos of the June Artists-in-Residence, mostly with their final Open Studio display. Click on the image for the name.
Now I'm in Banff on July 1st, Canada Day. Alan and I left 'The Hat' after breakfast for the 4 1/2 hr drive here, arriving around 3pm. Every day of June was spent at the Residency so it's going to be hard to get back to my usual life. The last three days were amazingly packed, with the salt kiln firing on the 28th. I…
At the studio just after 6am and brought Brenda, Leigh and Jin. Joanne and Leigh helped me load the salt kiln and I am so grateful. They helped make decisions on placement on each shelf and between us we loaded everything waiting for this last salt firing - except for a baker and bird bowl of mine and a bowl of Claude's. I can't complain…