Deer Lake Art Gallery is just a few steps away from the Shadbolt Centre and the sun was shining so I left the Ceramic Symposium for half an hour to see Fraser Valley Potters Guild's Annual Juried Show & Sale. Amy Gogarty was volunteering to sit the show that day. I see that the show actually closed today. It was well worth the visit. I…
The latest Canadian Clay Symposium took place at the Shadbolt Centre, as usual, on March 21st, and it's taken this long for me to sort my photos and put together my experience of a super weekend. On the Friday evening Jesse Birch of Nanaimo AG gave the keynote speech at the Emily Carr U campus. He spoke about ways of sharing ceramic collections with gallery…
I recently attended the opening of Fired Identity, a show of work by Greater Vancouver Chinese Canadian Artists in Clay. It was co-curated by Kwantlen University instructor Ying Yueh Chuang and Jean Paull. Participating artist and local potter friend Eliza Wang invited me, with the treat of being driven all the way down to Kwantlen Polytechnic University by her daughter Audrey. Eliza was delighted to…
Twelve of Eric Metcalfe's gouache paintings have recently been installed at his Dogwood Care Home. You are invited. I wasn't able to join his many Western Front colleagues for the tea-party launch. But when his good friend Paul Mathieu invited me to accompany him on another tea-time visit to Eric on Friday we made a point of seeing the splendid display in the care home's…
That's odd. The last Raid I hosted was on February 17th 2025. No wonder so many of the underglaze jar-lids were stuck on solidly! Renée, Karen, Monique and Cathy brought along rubber gloves and lid-opening gizmos to help out, when they came to paint plates once again on Monday. Raiders concentrating on their work creative mess This is the first time I've invited others to…