Twelve of Eric Metcalfe's gouache paintings have recently been installed at his Dogwood Care Home. You are invited. I wasn't able to join his many Western Front colleagues for the tea-party launch. But when his good friend Paul Mathieu invited me to accompany him on another tea-time visit to Eric on Friday we made a point of seeing the splendid display in the care home's…
Last Thursday 'That Pottery Thing' celebrated this year's NorthWest Ceramic Foundation's Award Winners. A reception was held in the Mayer Studio at 1000 Parker street, Vancouver. Invited guests watched the award presentations, enjoyed elegant appetizers and participated in a Silent Auction of donated ceramics. Attentive audience & bargain pots from Sally Michener's kitchen. more enthusiastic audience The awards were presented by this year's jury members,…
I see that the Circle Craft show is now known as Holiday Market. OK. This second blog will show you all the other clay-work booths that I found. I enjoyed meeting emerging and long-time makers from all over BC. It seems that many of them concentrate on offering affordable mugs. It seems as if mainly the long-time show stars bring their large, statement pieces. Atsuko…
This year's Circle Craft Christmas Market is over. I attended this fabulous event on Wednesday afternoon with the intention of finding all the ceramics people and posting my photos. It was so good to connect with longtime clay friends and meet the new folks, but I'm sorry I failed to get information out there before the show ended so that you could be inspired to…
Our drive into Vancouver on Friday was not helped by the rain and the current lack of parking on Granville Island, but my new selection of pots was safely delivered to Circle Craft Co-op shop in the Netloft Building. I think they will be on display tomorrow. Smoked salmon chowder at the Stock Market, a peek at Martin Peters' show of big jars in Enishi…