Port Moody's current Ceramics Artist-in-Residence Azadah Mehryar's year-end show opened at PoMoArts on Thursday July 17th. We enjoyed her presentation to TriCity Potters back in May and were looking forward to seeing the work she has selected for 'Odyssey of the Rooted Self'. She and the other two artists currently featured in the galleries were interviewed at the opening by gallery manager Kate Feltren as a…
Thursday evening saw the opening of three shows in the PoMoArts galleries. A fellow ceramics student from Emily Carr U days, Margaret Hsu, joined me to see what this year's Ceramics Artist-in-Residence has produced for her year-end solo show. Georgia Fitton, also an Emily Carr graduate, was already giving pottery classes in the Arts Centre when she was awarded the Ceramics Residency. She tells us…
The coastal shoreline is a unique place where land and ocean overlap. When the conditions are right, the persistent and unyielding tidal forces can carve hollows and divots into the bedrock itself. Groupings of these sculptural rock formations are called Tafoni. from Brent Comber. While holidaying together on a Gulf Island five artist friends realized that they needed to put their work together in a…
Are you intimidated by colourful underglazes? Some Tricity Potters are happy to make pots in classes and then glaze them but worry about using underglazes. With that in mind we arranged a fun game of cooperation for last Wednesday's meeting. Members were asked to bring along a bone dry or bisque-fired pot, any underglazes they have and a brush or two. We had lots of…
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…