Yesterday was another of those very busy but really good days when Raiders invade my studio! I kept the number of visitors to six as that's the comfortable number to sit around my big table and that's about all the plates I had made and bisqued. Eric, Renée, Monique, Kate M, Allyson and brand-new Raider Anne Ramsden were my guests for the day. Anne…
There was another little Raid on April 8th when Eric Metcalfe brought Burrard Arts Foundation Director Kate Bellringer out to Port Moody. She wanted to spend some time discussing her plan to curate a show featuring the work of Raiders. So she was encouraged to 'doodle' on a large platter, while Eric painted another of his lunch plates and we looked at my collection of…
This morning Eric Metcalfe and Kate Bellringer came out to Port Moody for a mini-Raid. Kate is the Director of Burrard Arts Foundation (BAF) and has expressed interest in curating a first show of Raiders' work. The owners of Terminal Creek Contemporary Art Gallery, in Artisan Square on Bowen Island have given her a slot in August 2019 so Kate is anxious to get our visiting artists…
On Sunday, a week ago, Al and I took advantage of another sunny but cold day to drive over to the Seymour Art Gallery in Deep Cove, North Vancouver. I was curious to see what Pierre Coupey had done with the idea of painting on plates. Since spotting Renée Van Halm's painted plates in her show at the West Vancouver Museum he has enthusiastically joined…
It's two weeks since the most recent Raid took place. Because Philippe used wax on bisque-fired plates I decided to re-fire everybody's work, including two Rhytons that Eric had painted, so that there would be no smudging of underglazes. Then, with my participation in the soda firing for much of last week, it was a minor miracle that I found time to glaze and fire…