The top area of the kiln was reserved for my latest jugbird creations. Jeremy Waller of Primavera, in Cambridge, asked me to bring along some English birds and some more exotic ones. So I now have to carefully pack them up in a cardboard box that is just slightly smaller than the allowed carry-on size, ready for my flight to Gatwick on Friday.…
What did I do for my workshop in Williams Lake? After an enjoyable Greyhound bus ride (8.15am - 4.15pm) up the Fraser Canyon, then beside the Thompson River and north up the Cariboo Highway, Joan Beck met me. As before, when I gave a workshop to Cariboo Potters in 2000, I stayed for the three nights with Joan and her husband Reg. Their home is…
Joan Beck, of the Cariboo Potters Guild, has invited me to give a workshop. It'll be fun to travel up the Cariboo Highway for the weekend. My previous workshop with this group was in 2000! I've chosen to take the Greyhound bus so that I can take a box of supplies with me but also to see the beautiful and so varied BC landscape.…
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,…
Today I needed to make two more oval lunch plates so I thought I'd take photos to show how I use the new cheese-cutter. To make a clear story of the process I've assembled the photos into a Picasa album. If you click on this link you can watch a slide show. It might inspire you to throw some forms for making plates yourself. https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/MakingOvalSlabLunchPlates…