My niece Tasha is a Statistics Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, too far away! Recently when one of her friends mentioned how much fun she is having in beginner pottery classes, Tash told her that her aunt is a potter and somehow four firm friends plotted to leave their husbands and children and fly to Vancouver for a four-day holiday! What a…
New Zealand potter Chris Weaver has been here in BC for the last week. Local salt potters Jackie Frioud and Cathi Jefferson invited him to give a couple of workshops while he is on a working trip to North America. Last week he gave a workshop and salt firing at Cathi's kiln in the Cowichan Valley and this weekend he did a demo-only workshop at…
I think that the six local potters who joined me for a day of painting in July can be very happy with their finished work. Maria and Linda have already popped over to collect their one plate each. Ysabella, Susan and Barbara, come when you can, phone first. June already has hers, with a plan to fire it to cone 6. Maria tells me she…
My recent kiln firing included work by four TriCity Potters and Burnaby artist Bill Thomson. Felicia Hsieh usually works in cone 10 stoneware at Shadbolt Centre and has had her work fired in their reduction gas kiln and in the salt/soda kiln there. So her day with earthenware was a new experience for her. She worked very carefully, using two red earthenware oval plates, applying…
I extended an invitation to TriCity Potters to join me in my studio last Saturday. Last year we had such fun. Only four friends were free to come this time but actually it was just fine, with lots of plates, tiles and space. On Thursday Linda Lebrun and Gay Mitchell came here to use my slab roller to make lots of plates and 6" tiles…