Three more Vancouver artists came out to Port Moody on Wednesday to paint the plates they plan to donate to the Western Front Fundraiser. Last week Mina, Philippe and Monique were here and yesterday it was Eric, Renée and Rebecca. They are all comfortable with using underglazes on bone dry clay plates now and quickly settled down for a quiet day - well, along with some hilarious…
Yesterday was another busy day, with three 'Raiders' here to paint plates all day, and then a TriCity Potters' meeting in the evening. There will be a set of six plates, painted by a selected group of Vancouver artists, to be donated to the annual Western Front Gala in a month or two. I was asked to design a new shape, an oval plate without…
The latest collection of painted plates was taken out of the kiln yesterday and Al took good photos of them. These new plates are quite spectacular. I'll post pics of work by Monique Fouquet and Renée van Halm first and then do another post to show pieces by Eric, Rebecca and Mina. Philippe left four plates here, unfinished, to complete another day. Monique, bless her,…
The other two artists who had plates in my recent firing were Marlene Madison and Mina Totino. Renee van Halm was here too, working hard all day but in the end decided to leave her pieces to be finished on her next visit. Marlene finished a fairly large platter with oak leaves that she'd started on an earlier visit and…
Most of my most recent firing contained plates and platters painted by the 'Raiders'. These blogs showing each of the underglaze painted plates is our way of keeping a record of the work done here. So in the first of two posts today I'll show the work of Eric Metcalfe, Elizabeth McIntosh and Monique Fouquet. Eric almost always chooses his traditional…