Renée always arrives here well-armed with collages from which she chooses the shapes and colours of her paintings. She even had an oval cut-out ready to frame her composition. I really enjoy the way she takes the underglaze colours and mixes them to produce all manner of shades. This time she painted two plates and then a smaller oval but deeper dish. It is…
One of the four February artists visiting my studio was Sally Clay. After she had painted a regular oval plate Sally chose to paint this spherical vase. I had thrown it for her some time ago and, like the plates, it was bone-dry. On the whole these visiting painters tend to ignore the shape of the plate or the rim and take colour across these…
Just recently I had another group of artists here to paint plates. The plan is to get eight artists to paint several plates and donate one each for the upcoming Western Front fundraiser. Eric, Monique and Katie had already painted theirs in January so on this day my visitors were Sally Clay, Renée van Halm, Eli Bornowsky and Katie again. Paul Mathieu couldn't come so…
Just before Alan and I left for our Mexican holiday I opened my kiln. So I was able to deliver the ten jugbirds to YVR Crafthouse as we left for our flight. Helping to fill that kiln were the most recent painted plates, so here they are. The first two were painted by Katie Lyle. These are her first pieces painted on ceramics. There is…
Suddenly I'm busy, busy! It's amazing what deadlines will encourage. The airport wants their order right now and as many jugbirds as I have on hand. On Tuesday I had 10 completed but unpainted. On Wednesday the first of two 'Painting Raids' took place, when 3 of a planned 8 artists painted my oval plates for a Western Front fund-raiser in March. That evening…