As we prepare for Christmas I have failed to complete the jugbirds I started for YVR Crafthouse. Unrealistically I said I could get them done in 3 weeks, ie about now. They are thrown and have their beaks inserted. I have also designed and made a bird teapot ordered a while ago to match a jugbird and sugarpot. Photos of the process will be posted…
Yesterday I opened my latest firing. Along with my usual jugbirds I fired 3 oval plates and a larger platter for Vancouver artist Eric Metcalfe. He enjoys the change from his usual practice of 2D paintings with gouache. On bone-dry slab plates that I make for him he first draws with pencil and then applies 3 coats of two or three carefully chosen underglazes. I…
It's so good to be able to take a walk at the end of Burrard Inlet. Alan and I watched the last of the salmon drifting in Noon's Creek, having completed their epic journey. The creek was roaring down from the mountain after serious rain the day before. I thought I'd just get another kiln load made and fired before Christmas. There are 18 new…
Julie York was our presenter at last Wednesday's TriCity Potters meeting. On a horrid rainy night, when there was almost no parking near the High School due to a concert at the same time there, Julie found her way out from Vancouver. She explained her beginnings in clay as a student of David Lloyd's at Kwantlen College in her home town of Surrey. Another instructor…
Here are some more pots from the 'Wide Open' Alberta Potters' show, on view at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. These first are titled 'Inhale' and 'Exhale'.