Some months ago I began to notice wonderful painted porcelain mugs showing up on Instagram. Lori Elling's work is unique in many ways. She cheerfully applies oodles of underglaze patterns, but the interesting thing is that they are broken up by raised shapes, left uncoloured. When I noticed that she is one of the latest artists whose work has been juried into the Circle Craft…
Last Wednesday Al and I went in to Vancouver. I had made a late-afternoon appointment to drop off a new selection of work at Circle Craft. If you pop in there you'll see that I left jolly earthenware jugbirds and several special soda pieces. Before going down to Granville Island we stopped in at Pulp Fiction Books so that I could deliver the 'Constructivist Yunomi'…
I killed several birds with one stone on Thursday. What a dreadful expression for getting several errands done in one trip! Two potter friends, Barbara Tipton and Faye Oakes joined me for a chance to see the show 'Malleable: Changing Notions of Women' at the Italian Cultural Centre. I missed the opening and now have only just managed to catch the show. But several women potter…
Well, perhaps not gems but it's nice alliteration! Certainly the contents of the top shelf of my recently opened glaze firing are jolly. I have already posted pics of all the Raiders' plates that were on shelves below so now I'll show some of my work. I have neglected the jugbirds lately, probably because of the excitement of 'The Raiders' show on Bowen Island and…
There's always something new to see on a visit to Granville Island! Last Wednesday, July 4th, Alan and I drove into town for me to deliver a new selection of pots to Circle Craft. The traffic to get on to the Island was horrendous, but we found a parking spot near the old Art School and walked along Johnson street towards the Market and the…