I love getting emails from my website! This morning someone from England sent me a photo of an Eagle jugbird he'd bought at a shop in SW London. It was originally shown at the now-closed Candover Gallery in Alresford, Hants in an 'Animals' show. You don't often get any news of old friends from your studio after they've left. Happy! Another exciting piece of news…
I was late getting to see the astonishing ceramic show at Evergreen Cultural Centre's Art Gallery so my blog is too late for you to go and see it yourself. But I wanted to let anybody interested see these photos of the delicate and painstaking installation in the gallery space. My apologies for not having made careful note of the titles and of which artist…
A perfect day to be in the studio - rainy but not cold. Once again Eric Metcalfe arranged for a group to come out to Port Moody to paint plates. Monique Fouquet was the driver for Eric and Paul Mathieu. Plates requested were a yellow and a grey for Eric, two white for Monique and two larger white platters for Paul so I made them…
North Vancouver potter and sculptor Santo Mignosa was our speaker at the TriCity Potters' monthly meeting last night. Santo was born in Sicily into a clay family. Tiles, bricks and quicklime were made from the local beach sand. He says that pots made with that mixture of sand, sea water and sea algae for clay held water even though they were earthenware. Salt glaze? …
Last night I took sky train from Lougheed Town Centre to Granville station and emerged on Dunsmuir Street. Satellite Gallery is at 560 Seymour street, just nearby. I took the elevator up one floor and was just in time to say hello to fellow potters and take a seat before curator Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo introduced speaker Paul Mathieu at 6pm. To see the invitation and read…