An invitation to a wedding celebration gave us a fine excuse to spend several days on two islands. The young couple have chosen to make their home on Vancouver Island, but organized a party weekend for their guests at the much-loved Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island. Alan and I checked ourselves in to the High Point 'Resort' just after arriving on the ferry from…
CSDA/CCAD (Canadian Society for Decorative Arts/Cercle canadien des arts décoratifs) is a national organization that promotes decorative art and design through one-of-a-kind events, special guest talks, and via their award-winning magazine, Ornamentum. https://www.ornamentum.ca The society hosted a conference in Vancouver this weekend. Attendees were taken to museums, galleries and ECUAD and on Friday evening the general public was also invited to a free talk sponsored…
When we returned from our week-long stay in cabins at Rathtrevor Beach I had a kiln load of bisqued pots to glaze. There were some pieces made by visiting family members but mainly some plates and jugbirds that I'd made in July. I'm working slowly on these hot, smoky days but finally I took the pots out of the kiln last week. There are fun…
Some months ago Jonathon invited me to make a couple of special, big jugbirds for a show in the Summer. Only fellow participants in a January soda firing saw what I made but now that the show has opened I can post photos of them. Axis of Art - Women In Clay This is the first installment of a new series of exhibitions celebrating excellence…
When PoMoArts decided to feature its Ceramics Artists in Residence in a show, Gallery Manager Janice Cotter had a complicated task finding them all. It's a fine idea to put us all together and take a look at what work we've done since our time in a studio at the Arts Centre, but who kept a list? Janice has only worked with the clay people…