https://www.banffcentre.ca/visual-arts-facilities One week ago Alan and I returned from a wonderful week-long road trip to Banff. Sister nieces from Austin, TX and Boston, MA planned to fly to Calgary with their families and holiday in Banff. What a great excuse to get ourselves out of town and join them there for a few days! Although flying out of the country is still a step too…
For the last one hundred years BC's ceramics community has benefitted from the knowledge and skills that have been brought here by immigrants from around the world. The NorthWest Ceramics Foundations' latest speaker, Russell Hackney, is the third generation potter in his family to live and work in the five (arguably six) towns of Stoke-on-Trent. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, Russell Hackney comes from a long…
Bird Vessel It seems that I find myself constantly using birds as inspiration for my work. In this latest soda firing my pots are either birds or I've drawn them on the surface, using sgraffito.Here are some more angles on the bird vessel. My sister Mary says she has one from a long-ago trip to Peru that has a filling hole underneath so I think…
front shelves back shelves The vault soda kiln was turned off last Friday, after techs Linda, Jay and Cheryl finished spraying the soda in. First impressions when the kiln door was opened on Tuesday were that they got it right! Pots were still warm so we wore gloves to pass ware from one excited participant to the next. Below are closer looks at the first…
The speaker for last Friday's talk to TriCity Potters was Burnaby artist Sharon Reay. Sharon is a potter and sculptor who uses her skill to celebrate her love of the illustrations in old childrens' books. Many of us know Sharon from the many years she worked as the Arts programmer for Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, in Burnaby. For all this time she had a…