Last year Circle Craft and the Craft Council of BC put on a first Summer Craft Market and it was held at Jack Poole Plaza next to the new Convention Centre. When it was announced that the event would be offered again this year I decided that I'd really like to go. The weather was perfect today - sunny and not too hot, and the location is…
I do enjoy the drive out to Matsqui Prairie for these occasional salt firings at Herman Venema's country studio. The mountains you see to the North as you drive over the Pitt River bridge, reflected in the river, are spectacular. And further on, near Ruskin, there's Mount Baker, seemingly just across the Fraser River. When I arrived Herman and Dave were ready to start work,…
We finished our brief island holiday by staying with friends in Duncan on Friday night. Cathi Jefferson had let me know that on the Saturday morning she would be at the farmer's market in downtown Duncan. So we had a brief visit there. This busy woman has recently returned from a residency in Jingdezhen and teaching a University class in Victoria. Her beautifully thrown and…
Saturday found Alan and me in Vancouver again and it was a good chance to take a closer look at the current show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics, 'Table Salt'. Here is the invitation showing the artists involved. Each artist had a wall display to distinguish their distinctive styles of work and in the rest of the space their pieces were displayed together. Rather…
On Friday I dropped some jugbirds off at the Music Box gallery in West Van for 'Crackerjack'. Then I decided to go to see the big Circle Craft Christmas Market at the new Convention Centre. Not wanting to park downtown, or take the seabus on a nasty windy day I chose to take the Blue West Van bus from Ambleside, over Lion's Gate bridge and…