June has certainly been eventful and actually productive! With a significant birthday to start the month, TriCity Potters here for our June meeting/potluck, the making of pots for soda, last weekend's very successful SHUFFLE and now the opening of the soda kiln this week, I have enjoyed myself. This will be a brief blog, just to record my small collection of pots from the Vault…
Now that I've had a few days to study and photograph my latest efforts from the soda kiln, I can show them to you. The two best pieces are being kept secret for a Summer event. 'Nuff said, but it's hard not to share them right away! Overall I thought the firing was very good. As you saw in the earlier post there were some…
Bird Vessel It seems that I find myself constantly using birds as inspiration for my work. In this latest soda firing my pots are either birds or I've drawn them on the surface, using sgraffito.Here are some more angles on the bird vessel. My sister Mary says she has one from a long-ago trip to Peru that has a filling hole underneath so I think…
This evening's blog will be a photo gallery of my final pots of 2021. After I retrieved four pots from the Fraser Valley Potters' Guild holiday firing I fired the remaining teeny plates in my electric kiln.When Marianne came by my studio to pick up her now-four-times-fired Grooved Vase she found that I had finished some more of the jolly teeny plates she'd ordered for…
Yesterday morning, as I enjoyed my morning coffee, I watched Jonathon Bancroft Snell opening parcels of pots, filmed by Brian Cooke. It's extraordinary to be able to see and hear reactions and find out how my pieces survived my packing. Meira Mathieson, who has been showing her work at Jonathon's for many years, had also sent a box of new work. Now that…