A Circle Craft customer requested a Stellar's Jay jugbird and a Crow so my version of each were in my recent earthenware firing. There is already lots of my work in the Granville Island Co-op shop but staff said they'd like these two brought in. The sun began to emerge so I opted to drive in to town and give myself a change of scenery.…
Yesterday morning, as I enjoyed my morning coffee, I watched Jonathon Bancroft Snell opening parcels of pots, filmed by Brian Cooke. It's extraordinary to be able to see and hear reactions and find out how my pieces survived my packing. Meira Mathieson, who has been showing her work at Jonathon's for many years, had also sent a box of new work. Now that…
It's almost two weeks since the exciting day when I returned to Shadbolt Centre to collect my sixteen pots from the latest soda firing. By the time I arrived almost all of the pots had been claimed and my pieces were arranged on a separate table for me. Safety precautions are important so we were given specific time slots to be there. I wore…
At 9am this morning I checked in to 'canadianceramics' on Instagram to see what Jonathon Bancroft-Snell was up to. He'd mentioned that there was to be another box opening today. Dressed all, and I mean totally, in red for Valentine's, he unwrapped the dozen teeny red, black and white plates that he'd ordered from me a while ago. As we watched, local London baker Lisa…
Port Moody Arts Centre/PoMoArts is managing to keep its gallery open in spite of current restrictions on gatherings. Protocols are strictly observed so that when I stopped by one day last week I wore a mask, signed in and hand-sanitized. I was the only visitor to the Blackberry gift shop and the three galleries at that time, but was happy to find ever-enthusiastic gallery manager…