Read more about the article Port Moody SHUFFLE 2024
Gillian's work / local pottery shows / Port Moody Art / pottery / pottery studio visits / Soda Firing

Port Moody SHUFFLE 2024

Deadlines are good! I booked myself in to join a soda firing at Shadbolt Centre's Vault kiln on May 22nd. So, at the beginning of May, I cleaned the red earthenware out of my wheel and started work with Plainsman H555 and Georgie's Umpqua cone 10 stoneware clay. I made my two cubic feet quota of ware, including carved bowls, jugbirds and more, and bisque-fired…

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May 26th, 2024
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Art shows / Vancouver Art

Equinox Gallery

When we go in to Vancouver Alan and I like to make sure we do more than one errand. On Friday, a week ago, we certainly did that. Raider Renée van Halm's show at Equinox Gallery was due to close on the Saturday so this was our last chance to see it. I'd seen some of the paintings online but really wanted to see them…

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April 26th, 2024
Read more about the article TriCity Potters in JingdeZhen
l to r Hannah, Kay, Grace, Carlene & Eliza
pottery / pottery studio visits / presentations / travel / TriCity Potters / workshop

TriCity Potters in JingdeZhen

Fourteen years ago, in October of 2010, five members of TriCity Potters spent an amazing two weeks in JingdeZhen, the famous porcelain-production city in China. Last Wednesday these intrepid potters, Grace Siu, Carlene Akester, Kay Bonathan, Hannah Chan and Eliza Wang, presented their experience there to us and then spoke a little about how the residency has influenced their own work. Kay introduced the five,…

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April 24th, 2024
Read more about the article FVPG in Chilliwack
Kay, Pat, Ted & Holly announcing
Art shows / local pottery shows / pottery

FVPG in Chilliwack

On Saturday March 23rd I accompanied fellow potters Carlene, Kay and Eliza for the 1 1/4 hour drive out to Chilliwack for the opening of Fraser Valley Potters Guild's annual juried show. I haven't been attending meetings for many years but as a founding member I am honoured to have lifetime membership. Kay invited me to participate this year and I agreed, seeing I had…

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April 5th, 2024
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Bumble Bee
presentations / TriCity Potters / Visiting artists

Jen Woodin

Jennifer Woodin is uniquely qualified, not only  to teach ceramics, but to encourage her students to understand futuristic technology related to clay. Her first degree, from California State U in Chico, is in engineering and for several years she worked in the field of mechanical and civil engineering. When in Chico, Jen took some pottery classes and eventually decided to change careers and get an…

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March 26th, 2024