Now that the Port Moody Solstice Shuffle is history it's time to get back to my usual routine. The three 'Raiders' who showed up here last Friday asked if we could please, please have another Raid soon. So after delivering those jugbirds to Crafthouse YVR on Monday I shelved my remaining pots and fished out Wonder White earthenware clay. Even though it's summertime slab-formed plates…
Crafted Vancouver has been hosting a 25-day festival featuring multiple craft disciplines for most of May. In the International category there was an exhibition of Master Ceramicists at Granville Island's Performance Works May 10th - 18th. ICHEON POTTERS ASSOCIATION OF KOREA PRESENTS AN EXHIBITION OF MASTER CERAMICISTS A selling exhibition of 13 ceramic artists represented by the Icheon Potters Association. Icheon is the first city in…
Having understood that the Chinese delegation who attended 'From Oven and Kiln 2018' are all really interested in Ceramics, and that they have brought a collection of 300 Yixing teapots from Beijing for a four-month exhibition at the Vancouver Poly Culture Art Center, I knew I must get to see them. Yesterday I took transit in to downtown Vancouver, hopping out of the…
Every three years the North-West Ceramics Foundation hosts a Gala Fundraiser and Award Presentation. This year it was again held at the elegant Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and I treated myself to a ticket. I had been invited to donate a special piece of my work and this year I made a large Puffin jugbird as my Auction contribution to this important BC Ceramics organization.…
Eric Metcalfe has been experimenting with drawing on bisque forms. The ceramic pencils don't work on a bone dry plate, they just grind a groove instead of leaving a line so I bisqued a couple of his favourite rimmed plates. And yes, the drawing doesn't burn off and is enhanced and preserved by the coat of clear glaze. …