February has been a tumultuous month for BC's Ceramic community. At the end of January BC Potters' Guild President Laura Carey sent an email to members notifying us that the Gallery would be closing at the end of February. A final show 'The Guiding Hand' featuring the wood-fired work of Past President Jinny Whitehead opened on Feb 1st. I had a cold and didn't attend.…
Life seems to be 'on hold' today, mainly because the forecast snowfall is happening. We were warned.. yesterday was a gorgeous sunny cold day and I made good use of it. This week's creations dried over the previous night and I carefully transported all the finished plates and my jugbirds out to the kiln shed. It's a bit of a worry because there was snow…
'Tommy' Kakinuma taught some of the founding members of the BC Potters' Guild in the fifties and sixties, in the UBC Pottery Huts. Recently collectors have been finding his pieces in antique shops in Vancouver and wonder who he was. It seems very little has been known about him. Blogger Stacy Reynaud bought a bird pot from John Lawrence of Doda Antiques. John has a…
For the last three months local ceramics whiz-kid Brendan Lee Satish Tang has been an artist-in-residence at Burrard Arts Foundation, as well as teaching Foundation Ceramics at Emily Carr U. He is currently showing the resulting work in the BAF Gallery at 108 East Broadway, Vancouver along with fellow artist Lucien Durey. The Opening Reception was on Thursday January 11th, one of those truly dreadful…
After I had attended the two artist's talks at Burrard Art Foundation on Broadway last Saturday I noodled around Main Street for a while. I've been looking for a chance to see some of the local murals. They really are a charming way to brighten up bare brick or concrete walls. IMG_5114 IMG_5113-4 Some are almost a block long…