Your first thought when you've taken your latest pots out of a group atmospheric firing is not necessarily ecstatic. Linda Doherty says that she's never really satisfied on the first day. When I saw that at least two pots weren't quite 'done' I thought that I'd just take all the work home and look at them in the morning. One or two seemed to be…
Finally we were allowed to see how the most recent firing of Shadbolt Centre's Soda kiln had turned out. It was a sunny, if rather cold Tuesday afternoon so we formed a line and passed the retrieved pots along to tables set up outside. You'll see that the first glimpse showed quite a lot of grey orange peel but as we turned the pieces around…
It has been a very busy week in my world of clay. A week ago today I took my two cubic feet of pots to the Shadbolt soda kiln for wadding and left them there. The next day Linda, Jay and Tony loaded the kiln and then I saw Linda again that evening out at UBC for the opening of 'Playing With Fire'. …
This is the fourth and last blog about 'Catching Fire: Artists in Conversation'. I have used the talking trios as a way of showing photos of work by each of the eleven artists featured in the big 'Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary' show which opened at the Museum of Anthropology last Thursday. This final conversation was hosted by Alwyn O'Brien (you'll see that…
In the lunch break we had a chance to take another look at the show 'Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary', find David Lambert's work in the Multiversity Gallery and locate Debra Sloan's pieces in amongst the ceramics of the Koerner Gallery. The third 'conversation' in the Great Hall was hosted by Paul Mathieu and his guests were Ying Yueh Chuang and Alwyn O'Brien.…