Marlene Madison was our third guest at the most recent 'Raid'. She had painted three plates on a visit here prior to Monday's gathering, and then chose another five so there are lots of delightful shoes and one little apartment scene to add to her collection of squarish plates. We also refired an earlier plate of hers. It had developed crazing, been refired…
I asked local potter Pauline Doyle to help me to lift the shelves into my kiln on Tuesday. The glazing had gone well but I knew that loading the fairly heavy shelves into the kiln would be silly. How lucky am I that the Port Moody Arts Centre where Pauline happened to be working that day is only two blocks away? Thanks Pauline for giving…
'Raiders' were here again on Monday May 25th. They were Mina Totino, Marlene Madison and Eric Metcalfe this time. Eric had asked for two of his usual oval plates to be prepared with sage green and yellow. The other two requested several of the new squarish plates each, left white. I don't know what I did to hurt my back but on the morning they arrived…
On Wednesday May 20th Robert Shiozaki and Anyuta Gusakova were co-presenters at the monthly meeting of TriCity Potters. We met Robert when he and Kathryn O'Regan collaborated for a show in Port Moody Arts Centre not long ago. It was a preview show for a larger one held at Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, New Westminster. Since then Robert has joined us at our meetings…
In conversations with the artists who come here for painting days I've gathered that Paul Mathieu is a gardener. Eric has a little patch behind the Western Front which supports a lovely selection of healthy plants, thanks to the tender care given them by Karen Henry. But Eric has often said 'you need to see what Paul's done with his garden!' And Paul has…