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Tony Clennell in my kitchen with Richard Batterham pots.

Tony Clennell

We are enjoying having Tony Clennell as a house guest this week. He is giving several workshops at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby. https://www.burnaby.ca/Things-To-Do/Arts-and-Heritage/Shadbolt-Centre-for-the-Arts/Arts-Programs/Ceramics/Workshop--Ceramics-with-Tony-Clennell.html Yesterday and today he had a group of wood-firing keeners glazing their pre-bisqued work and loading the kiln. I believe he has volunteers to start the big new wood kiln early tomorrow morning. So there'll be 36 hours of…

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September 24th, 2015

Sarah's bowls

Clay Symposium

‘Dig This’

Linda Lebrun, TriCity Potters' newsletter editor, has kindly allowed me to use her description of our fine day at Shadbolt Centre on Saturday. She, June and I went together for Dig This and the evening's BC Potters' Guild dinner. I'll add some of the photos I took so that those of you who weren't able to attend can get an idea of the work…

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March 24th, 2015

TriCity Potters / Vancouver Art

Fredi Rahn at TriCity Potters

Last Wednesday Fredi Rahn spoke to our group, showing us her hand-building technique and some slides of her work. Fredi studied Ceramics at Sheridan College (Ontario) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since 1990 has taught at Emily Carr University and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. While we tried to figure out projector, laptop computer and memory…

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April 21st, 2013

Vancouver Art

Elementum: Form, Function & Feast

350 people attended Elementum: Form, Function and Feast, the 6th Triennial Canadian Clay Ceramic Symposium, held at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Saturday. With 13 presenters there was something for everybody, whether beginner or professional, wheel thrower, hand builder, sculptor, teacher, curator or writer. To be honest I saw it as a chance to catch up with potters I've met in over 40 years…

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March 25th, 2013

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Jack Shadbolt paintings

The Shadbolt Arts Centre is named after Jack and Doris Shadbolt who were Burnaby residents. Jack is one of BC's most well-known and admired painters and Doris was an Art writer and curator. To remind us of their importance in their community a photo of them is displayed in the foyer and throughout the entrance there are some spectacular Jack Shadbolt paintings. On Thursday I…

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July 24th, 2011

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.