This is the article I wrote for Circle Craft Co-operative to thank them for the Residency scholarship. BC Potters Guild has published it in their August newsletter. The illustrated article is too big a file to add here so I'll put in the text and add some pics afterwards. This June will bring back happy memories for a long time. Salt-glazed Sewer Pipes: My Inspiration…
Some of the new pots are now displayed in the window of Circle Craft Co-operative on Granville Island, Vancouver with work by Debra Sloan. She was an Artist-in-Residence for 13 weeks in Hungary and also received a scholarship from Circle Craft. http://www.debrasloan.com/blog/ The Gallery of BC Ceramics also has some salty jugbirds - but they want more of my regular colourful earthenware birds soon. Five…
I've been home for two weeks now and I haven't opened the bag of earthenware clay to start work again. Tomorrow... For the last week we've been billetting Vince Pitelka while he gave a 'coloured clay' workshop at the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby - about 15 mins from here. Al and he had long conversations about pots and archaeology. Nice.We also talked about salt firing.…
Here are photos of the June Artists-in-Residence, mostly with their final Open Studio display. Click on the image for the name.