Five was a good number of Raiders this time. The pool/ping-pong table seats five and me comfortably. So there are just two more artists to feature in this blog. Mina painted one of the large round plates with bold red and then other coloured shapes. It's very striking! Then she added three more of the square, electric frying-pan formed plates. She is enjoying using those…
Lots of work was produced by the most recent group of Raiders and Eric painted two at home as well so I have too many plates to show you in one blog. This post will show the work of Eric Metcalfe, Kate Metten and Pierre Coupey. Eric chose to paint three of his usual lunch-size rimmed plates, allowing the rim…
One of the jugbirds I took to England in September was a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. They are native to England, not North America. As soon as she saw it on Facebook, local Port Moody artist Maggie White asked for one too. Like me, Maggie grew up in England so was probably feeling nostalgic. My most recent flock of birds included her GS Woodpecker and today…
Five Vancouver area artists trundled out to Port Moody on Tuesday for the first 'Raid' since August. It seems I had enough bisque-fired platters and plates prepared for this group, and there were lots of underglaze colours ready. Pierre Coupey drove here from West Vancouver and Mina Totino, Kate Metten, Eric Metcalfe and Tamara Mills came from Vancouver. As conversation flowed each person settled right…
After the last gathering of 'Raiders' (Vancouver artists) here in my studio on August 22nd I could see that their painted plates would fill my kiln for the glaze firing at least twice. Some pieces needed to be bisque-fired one more time to burn off wax applied to resist underglaze so that took up some room. But my top priority for the first firing…