A few months ago I had a phone-call from Jonathon's Gallery, asking me if I'd like to make more of my carved, lidded egg boxes for a special show in July. "Could they be Rainbow colours, and how about Trans colours too?" I can do that, so I threw closed egg shapes, with a spare just in case, and promised to keep them secret until…
Last Wednesday Al and I went in to Vancouver. I had made a late-afternoon appointment to drop off a new selection of work at Circle Craft. If you pop in there you'll see that I left jolly earthenware jugbirds and several special soda pieces. Before going down to Granville Island we stopped in at Pulp Fiction Books so that I could deliver the 'Constructivist Yunomi'…
June has certainly been eventful and actually productive! With a significant birthday to start the month, TriCity Potters here for our June meeting/potluck, the making of pots for soda, last weekend's very successful SHUFFLE and now the opening of the soda kiln this week, I have enjoyed myself. This will be a brief blog, just to record my small collection of pots from the Vault…
It was a hot Summer afternoon when we gathered in Deer Lake Park to unload the Vault Kiln on Tuesday. Right away we could see that the techs had fired the kiln successfully, with even some cone 12s having started melting. We saw lots of carbon trapping and orange peel on pots on the front shelves as we waited for all participants to join us. front…
It's Sunday evening and I'm looking back on an eventful weekend, full of friendly connections, happy reunions and a sad farewell. By Friday afternoon my studio was incredibly tidy, with a varied selection of work displayed on the big table. Al took some photos to record this moment, the first occasion for local folks to check out my working space since 2019. The SHUFFLE committee…